Artificial Intelligence Systems

Our applications-driven research in IoT systems emphasizes self-powered systems, leveraging energy-efficient, sub-threshold circuit design.
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Our research on in-memory processing, integrated system design, and advanced materials aims to address computational challenges arising in AI and optimization.

Core Faculty

Scott T. Acton

Chair, Charles L. Brown Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering American Telephone and Telegraph Company Professor of Engineering Professor, Biomedical Engineering (By Courtesy)
Currently Recruiting

Professor Acton’s laboratory at UVA is called VIVA - Virginia Image and Video Analysis. They specialize in biological image analysis problems. The research emphases of VIVA include machine learning for image and video analysis, AI for education, tracking, segmentation, and enhancement.

Caroline Crockett

Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Professor Crockett received a B.S. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Virginia in 2015 and a Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Michigan in 2022. Before entering graduate school, she worked in goverment contracting as a systems and image quality engineer. She is a member of IEEE and ASEE. 

Farzad Farnoud

Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering Assistant Professor, Computer Science
Currently Recruiting

His research interests include the information-theoretic and probabilistic analysis of genomic evolutionary processes; rank aggregation and gene prioritization; and coding for flash memory and DNA storage research interests include the information-theoretic and probabilistic analysis of genomic evolutionary processes; rank aggregation and gene prio

Tom Fletcher

Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering Associate Professor, Computer Science
Tom Fletcher is an associate professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering as well as the Department of Computer Science. He received his B.A. degree in Mathematics at the University of Virginia in 1999. He received an M.S. in Computer Science in 2002 followed by a Ph.D. in…

Mathews Jacob

Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Currently Recruiting

Mathews Jacob is is an expert in machine learning algorithms for biomedical imaging. He develops advance magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) methods for brain, lung, and heart applications.

Jundong Li

Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering (Primary) Associate Professor, Computer Science (Secondary)
Currently Recruiting

Li's research interests are generally in AI, Data Mining, and Machine Learning. As a result of his research work, he has published over 200 papers in high-impact venues. He has won several prestigious awards, and his work is supported by NSF, DOE, ONR, JP Morgan, Netflix, Cisco, Snap, and NEC America.

Zongli Lin

Ferman W. Perry Professor in the School of Engineering and Applied Science Professor and Associate Chair for Graduate Studies, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Currently Recruiting
Zongli Lin's current research interests include nonlinear control, robust control, and control applications. He was an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control (2001-2003), IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics (2006-2009) and IEEE Control Systems Magazine (2005-2012). He was…

Cong Shen

Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Currently Recruiting

Cong Shen is an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at UVa. He obtained his PhD degree from UCLA. His research interests are in transformers, reinforcement learning, in-context learning, LLMs, federated learning, and AI/ML for wireless.

Nikolaos Sidiropoulos

Louis T. Rader Professor Electrical and Computer Engineering
Currently Recruiting

Nikos Sidiropoulos earned his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Maryland–College Park, in 1992.

Gang Tao

Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

For more than 30 years, Professor Gang Tao has worked in various areas of adaptive control theory and applications, with particular interests in adaptive control of systems with multiple inputs and multiple outputs, systems with nonsmooth nonlinearities, and systems with uncertain faults...

Jing Yang

Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering Associate Professor of Computer Science (by courtesy)
Currently Recruiting
Dr. Yang is an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Virginia, with a secondary appointment (by courtesy) in the Department of Computer Science. Previously, She was an Assistant and then tenured Associate Professor at the Pennsylvania State…

Xiaoxuan Yang

Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Currently Recruiting
Xiaoxuan Yang's research focuses on efficient and reliable processing-in-memory-based system design, biologically plausible system design, and hardware accelerators for emerging technologies and applications. Xiaoxuan Yang is an assistant professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering…

Miaomiao Zhang

Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering Assistant Professor, Computer Science
Currently Recruiting

Professor Zhang's research focuses on developing novel machine learning and AI models in the field of medical and biological imaging. Her current work spans generative modeling, medical image and shape analysis, with applications in cardiovascular imaging, neuroimaging, and computer-assisted surgery. 

Qiaochu Zhang

Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Currently Recruiting
Qiaochu Zhang's research includes analog, mixed-signal, radio-frequency integrated circuits, computer-aided design algorithms, and advanced computing architectures. Dr. Zhang received the B.S. degree (Hons.) in physics from Fudan University, Shanghai, China, in 2017, and the Ph.D. degree in…