Faculty

Homa Alemzadeh is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Computer Science at UVA. She is also affiliated with the UVA Link Lab, a multi-disciplinary center for research and education in Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS). Before joining UVA, she was a Research Staff Member at the IBM TJ Watson Research Center.

Panagiotis Apostolellis is a full-time Assistant Professor in the Computer Science Department at the University of Virginia. He received his PhD in Computer Science & Applications from Virginia Tech in 2017.

Christopher L. Barrett is the inaugural Distinguished Professor in Biocomplexity, Executive Director of the Biocomplexity Institute, and Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Virginia. He is an interdisciplinary computational scientist who has published more than 100 research articles.

Nada Basit is a full-time Associate Professor in the Computer Science Department at the University of Virginia. She received her PhD in Computer Science from George Mason University. Her passion is teaching, and she has taught undergraduate and graduate courses in CS. Her research interests are in Computer Science education and Machine Learning.

Dr. Madhur Behl is an associate professor in the departments of Computer Science, and Systems and Information Engineering.
He conducts research in Robotics and Artificial Intelligence, and is the team principal of UVA's Cavalier Autonomous Racing team

Aaron Bloomfield is a professor who joined the department of Computer Science in 2004. He earned his Ph.D. in Computer and Information Science at the University of Pennsylvania. His research focuses on computer science education, specializing in assessment systems and systems to expedite grading while increasing it's efficacy.

Brad is a faculty member in the Computer Science Department, the Electrical & Computer Engineering Department, and the Link Lab. His group researchers and develops the next generation of low power, wireless, and secure Internet of Things systems to help make buildings and cities more sustainable.

Rohan Chandra is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Virginia. His research interests include multi-robot navigation, human-robot interaction, and autonomous driving. The overarching goal of his robotics lab is to design algorithms and systems that enable robots to navigate among humans, like humans.

Chen Chen is an Assistant Professor in the Computer Science Department at the University of Virginia. Before that, she was a Research Assistant Professor at Biocomplexity Institute at UVA and a software engineer at Google.

Jack W. Davidson is a Professor of Computer Science at UVA. He joined in 1981 after receiving his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Arizona. His research interests include compilers, computer security, programming languages, computer architecture, and embedded systems. He is the principal investigator on several ongoing grants.

Afsaneh Doryab's research is at the intersection of ubiquitous computing, AI, HCI, and health. She works on computational modeling of human behavior (incl. Activity Recognition) from data streams collected via mobile, wearable, and embedded sensors. 

Her research lies at the intersection of computer hardware and software with a particular focus on support for parallelism.

Matthew B. Dwyer is the Robert Thomson Distinguished Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Virginia.

Sebastian Elbaum is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Virginia. His research aims to build dependable systems through domain-specific analysis techniques.  He is an ACM Fellow and an IEEE Fellow. I am a founding member of the LESS Lab.  

For information about me and my research, please see my web page and research group blog.

Ferdinando Fioretto works on machine learning, optimization, differential privacy, and fairness. He is a recipient of the Amazon Research Award, the NSF CAREER award, the Google Research Scholar Award, the Caspar Bowden PET award, the ISSNAF Mario Gerla Young Investigator Award, the ACP Early Career Researcher Award, and several best paper awards.

Geoffrey C. Fox received a Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics from Cambridge University, where he was Senior Wrangler. He is now a Professor in the Biocomplexity Institute & Initiative and Computer Science Department at the University of Virginia, and is currently active in the Industry consortium MLCommons/MLPerf.

Books:

1. Ethical Hacking: A Hands-on Introduction to Breaking In

2. Metasploit 2nd Edition: The Pentetration Tester's Guide

Wajih Ul Hassan is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Virginia. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in 2021. His research interests are broadly in systems security, threat detection, and forensic investigation

After growing up in Tennessee and completing my PhD in Scotland, I taught for 13 years at Florida Atlantic University.

His research interests lie in the broad area of computer architecture and systems. Jog's research has consistently been published at premier IEEE/ACM computer systems and architecture venues and funded by several agencies such as NSF and Google. He is a senior member of both IEEE and ACM.

Hyojoon Kim serves as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Virginia. His research interests lie in computer networks and distributed networked systems, with a specific focus on in-network computing, programmable networks, software-defined networking, network measurement, and network security.

Kyusang Lee is currently an Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Materials Science and Engineering departments at University of Virginia. He received his B.S. degree from Korea University in 2005, M.S. degree from Johns Hopkins University in 2009, and Ph.D. degree from University of Michigan in 2014, all in Electrical Engi

Li's research interests are generally in data mining and machine learning, with a particular focus on graph mining, causal inference, and algorithmic fairness. As a result of his research work, he has published over 100 papers in high-impact venues. He has won several prestigious awards, and his work is supported by NSF, JLab, JP Morgan and Cisco.

Felix Xiaozhu Lin joined the Department of Computer Science as an associate professor in August 2020. Prior to his appointment at UVA Engineering, Lin was a tenured associate professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue University.

I am interested in Cryptography, Algorithms, and in general Theoretical Computer Science. My current research focuses on accessing large data efficiently and privately. My results cover Oblivious Random Access Machines (RAM), Private Information Retrieval, and Fully Homomorphic Encryption for RAM programs.

Chang Lou is a tenure-track assistant professor in Department of Computer Science at University of Virginia. His research interests are distributed systems, operating systems, and cloud computing. His work centers on improving system reliability and availability. 

Mohammad Mahmoody's research interests include cryptography, adversarial learning, computational complexity.

A university educator with over 20 years experience, Prof. Morrison researches Computing Education by exploring cognitive load theory within programming and broadening participation in computing. She has a PhD in Human-Centered Computing from Georgia Tech, a master's in CS, and a BS in Computer Engineering. Director of Computing Education Center.

Angela Orebaugh is an Assistant Professor in the Engineering School's Computer Science Department. Her teaching and research is focused on keeping us safe and secure in the cyber world. She is also lead faculty member for cybersecurity, information technology, and sustainability for UVA's School of Continuing and Professional Studies.

Raymond Pettit's interests include Metacognition in Novice Programmers, Gender Issues in CS Courses, Automated Assessment Tools for Programming, Programming Error Messages, CS1, CS2, and Programming Languages

Charles Reiss is an Assistant Professor, specializing in computer systems-related topics.Before joining UVa, he received in PhD from Berkeley, developing systems to analyze memory requirements in analytics systems like Apache Spark.

Research interests include:

Computer Science Education, Computer Science Systems.

Dr. Daniel J. Rosenkrantz is a Distinguished Institute Professor with the Biocomplexity Institute and Initiative at the University of Virginia. He has made fundamental contributions to many areas of computer science including formal languages, theory of computation, etc and is listed in notable “Who’s Who” lists for his many scientific achievements

Before joining UVA as an Associate Professor in 2016, Haiying Shen received her B.S. degree from Tongji University, China in 2000, and her M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Wayne State University in 2004 and 2006. In addition to teaching, she is an Associate Editor for the IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON) and the IEEE Networking Letters (NL).

Prof. Sherriff serves as Associate Department Chair and Director of the BSCS degree program. Teaching Interests: Software Engineering, Computer Game Design, Mobile Application Development.  Research Interests: CS Education, Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, Game Design and Gamification

Kevin Skadron research interests include, Computer Architecture, Hardware Acceleration, Near-data/in-memory Processing, Automata Processing, High-Performance Computing, Low Power Design, and Hardware Support for Debugging.
 

With love for the art of programming and three decades of industry experience in software engineering, I am interested in helping students understand theory and implementation.

Kevin Sullivan obtained his background in computer science from Tufts University (1987), working most closely with David Krumme, and in graduate school at the University of Washington, working with David Notkin (MS, 1994, PhD, 1994).

Ashish Venkat is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Virginia, where he joined after obtaining a Ph.D. from UC San Diego. His work has been published at top-tier venues such as ISCA, MICRO, ASPLOS, HPCA, IEEE S&P, and USENIX Security, and has received funding from NSF, DARPA, SRC, and Inte

Anil Vullikanti is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science and the Biocomplexity Institute. His research interests are randomized algorithms, combinatorial optimization, distributed computing, dynamical systems and network science, machine learning, and AI, and their applications to epidemiology, public health, and modeling.

I completed my Ph.D. at University of Texas at Austin under the supervision of Sarfraz Khurshid. During my Ph.D., I also closely collaborated with Kenneth McMillan and Darko Marinov. Prior to my Ph.D., I earned an MPhil (a research master's degree) from University of Melbourne, where I was supervised by Harald Søndergaard and Peter J. Stuckey.

Chen-Yu Wei is an Assistant Professor in the Computer Science department at the University of Virginia. Previously, he was a Postdoctoral Associate at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Research Fellow at the Simons Institute. His research focuses on fundamental problems in interactive decision making and reinforcement learning.

Aidong Zhang's research focuses on developing machine learning approaches to interpretable and fair learning, concept-based learning, federated learning, and generative AI. She also works on large language models for hypothesis generations for scientific discovery.