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Assistant Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering
Currently Recruiting
Using biomaterials to investigate immune cell-fibroblast crosstalk during tissue fibrosis and regeneration in order to better understand disease pathogenesis and identify new therapeutic targets.
Chair, Charles L. Brown Department of Electrical and Computer EngineeringAmerican Telephone and Telegraph Company Professor of EngineeringProfessor, 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.
Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer EngineeringAssociate Professor, Computer Science (by Courtesy)
Currently Recruiting
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.
Professor, Academic General Faculty, Teaching Track, Biomedical EngineeringDirector, NSF REU in Multiscale Systems Bioengineering and Biomedical Data Sciences
Timothy E. Allen teaches and mentors students in the areas of computational modeling of complex biological systems, molecular and cell biology assays, and medical device design.
Assistant Professor, Departments of Cell Biology and Biomedical Engineering
Currently Recruiting
Sameer Bajikar uses multidisciplinary approaches from human stem cells to computational models to understand how brain function goes awry in neurodevelopmental disorders to engineer new therapies for these diseases.
Thomas Barker explores and therapeutically exploits the fundamental links between fibroblast adaptation to their physical and biochemical microenvironment and their myofibroblastic differentiation during tissue repair, fibrosis and cancer.
Associate Professor, Academic General Faculty, Teaching Track, Biomedical EngineeringUndergraduate Program Director
Shannon Barker, Ph.D., focuses on ensuring that the BME undergraduate program's educational objectives and learning outcomes, as well as its curriculum, reflect an innovative and highly effective learning environment that meets the needs of all of its students, as well as employers…
Laura Barnes is a professor in the Department of Systems and Information Engineering. She is the Associate Director of Link Lab and directs the Sensing Systems for Health Lab which focuses on designing impactful, technology-enabled solutions for improving health and well-being.
Executive Director, Biocomplexity InstituteDistinguished Professor in Biocomplexity, Biocomplexity Institute Professor of Computer Science, School of Engineering and Applied Science
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.
Professor Bart-Smith joined the University of Virginia faculty in the fall of 2002. Dr. Bart-Smith came to UVA from Princeton University where she worked at the Princeton Materials Institute with A.G. Evans. Bart-Smith has founded the Multifunctional Materials and Structures Laboratory and the Bio-inspired Engineering Research Laboratory.
Associate Professor, Academic General Faculty, Teaching Track, Computer Science(Courtesy Appointment): Associate Professor, Academic General Faculty, Teaching Track, School of Data Science
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.
Associate Professor @ Computer Science Team Principal @ Cavalier Autonomous Racing Amazon Scholar
Dr. Madhur Behl is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science, and an Amazon Scholar He conducts research in Robotics and Artificial Intelligence, and is the founder and team principal of UVA's Cavalier Autonomous Racing team.
