CS at U.Va.
The U.Va. Department of Computer Science is a nationally recognized leader in computer science research and education. Our department includes 25 faculty members, 100 graduate students and 300 undergraduates. Faculty are active in fundamental computer science and engineering research and are engaged in interdisciplinary initiatives with scientists, humanists, engineers in other disciplines and medical personnel.
Our graduate students transition from students to collaborators through participation in world-class research projects. Our undergraduates are involved in research and are enriched by an integrated and challenging curriculum.
Features:
Colloquia
- Luyao Jiang - Thursday, May 16, 2013 Accelerating Reliability Simulation of NAND-Flash Based Solid State Drives
- Adam Brady - Wednesday, May 1, 2013 Synthesizing Novel Reflectance Functions with Genetic Programming
- Ashwin Raghav Mohan Ganesh - Wednesday, May 1, 2013 A Scalable Application-level Distributed Filesystem Notifications Solution
- Zhengyang Liu - Wednesday, May 1, 2013 On causes of GridFTP transfer throughput variance
- Hamid Bagheri - Friday, April 26, 2013 Synthesis from Formal Partial Abstractions
- Erin Griffiths - Friday, April 26, 2013 Room-level Localization of Individuals by Height for Smarthome Applications
- Md. Anindya Prodhan - Friday, April 26, 2013 A Smarter Water Heater to Cool Down Your Energy Bill
- Michael Boyer - Wednesday, April 24, 2013 Rate Matching to Improve the Performance and Energy Efficiency of GPU Systems
- Claire Le Goues - Monday, April 22, 2013 Automatic Program Repair Using Genetic Programming
- Jure Leskovec - Monday, April 22, 2013 Data Mining Massive Online Social Networks
- Juhi Ranjan - Monday, April 22, 2013 RF Doormat - Room-level tracking of residents in homes using RFID
- Shahriar Nirjon - Friday, April 19, 2013 A General-Purpose, Energy-Efficient, and Context-Aware Acoustic Event Detection Service for Smartphones
- Karolina Sarnowska-Upton - Friday, April 19, 2013 Methods Toward Automatic Configuration of Computing Environments for Application Execution
- Yamina Shams - Wednesday, April 17, 2013 Evaluating the Effect of Sensor Placement on Automated Sensor-Map Generation in Smart Homes
- Yisong Yue - Monday, April 15, 2013 Learning with Humans in the Loop
- Prateek Mittal - Friday, April 12, 2013 Trustworthy Communications Using Network Science
- Roger W. Baker, Assistant Secretary for Information and Technology for the Department of Veterans Affairs - Thursday, April 11, 2013 Protecting One of the Nation's Largest IT Infrastructures
- Grey Ballard - Friday, April 5, 2013 Avoiding Communication in Linear Algebra
- Yanjun Qi - Wednesday, April 3, 2013 Machine Learning for Big Data in Biomedicine
- Mohammad Mahmoody - Monday, April 1, 2013 On Tamper-Resilient Cryptography
- Wei Wang - Thursday, March 28, 2013 Addressing Processor Over-provisioning on Contemporary Multi-core Platforms
- Stefano Tessaro - Wednesday, March 27, 2013 Theoretical Foundations for Applied Cryptography
- Xia Zhou - Monday, March 25, 2013 Network Design in the Big-Data Age
- UVA Engineering Open House - Saturday, March 23, 2013 Come see us this Sat. 3/23 9 am - 3 pm
- Huijia (Rachel) Lin - Friday, March 22, 2013 Concurrent Security
- Connelly Barnes - Wednesday, March 20, 2013 Mid-level Image Editing with PatchMatch
- Andy Pavlo - Monday, March 18, 2013 Everything I Know About Fast Databases I Learned at the Dog Track
- Tianhao Tong - Monday, March 18, 2013 GuarDroid: Guarding Your Password from Untrusted Smartphone Apps
- John Paisley - Monday, March 4, 2013 Bayesian Nonparametric Models and "Big Data"
- Danny Feldman - Friday, March 1, 2013 Learning patterns in big data from small data using core-sets
- Daniel Dougherty - Tuesday, February 12, 2013 Transaction Logging for Automated and Proactive Fault Management
- Tanima Dey - Monday, January 28, 2013 Addressing Performance and Reliability in Multi-core Architectures via Effective Thread-mapping
- Enamul Hoque - Tuesday, January 22, 2013 Realism in Activity Recognition for Long Term Sensor Networks Deployments
- Samee Zahur Al Islam - Monday, January 21, 2013 Circuit Structures for Improving Efficiency of Security & Privacy Tools
- Ben Rodes - Friday, January 18th, 2013 Towards Establishing Desired Properties in Software of Unknown Provenance
- Matthew Yu - Wednesday, December 19th, 2012 A Wrinkle in the Active Appearance Model
- Hamid Bagheri - Monday, December 17th, 2012 Synthesis from Formal Partial Abstractions
- Zachary Fry - Wednesday, December 12th, 2012 Leveraging Light-Weight Analyses to Aid Software Maintenance
- Chih-hao Shen - Thursday, Deember 6th, 2012 Efficient Two-Party Secure Computation against Malicious Adversaries
- Ming Mao - Tuesday, December 4th, 2012 Cloud Auto-Scaling with Deadline and Budget Constraints
- Saad Arrabi - Monday, December 3rd, 2012 Designing Vertically Integrated Dynamically Configurable Systems
- Mona Sergi - Friday, November 30, 2012 New Designs of Encryption Schemes
- Muhammad Nur Yanhaona - Wednesday, October 24, 2012 An Agent-Based Distributed Monitoring Framework
News
- Awards Ceremony coming up on Wednesday, May 8 in Rice 120. More details to come.
- Congratulations to Philip Asare (CpE) for being named a 2013 - 2014 Google Lime Connect Scholar!
- Congratulations to Vijay Srinivasan, John Stankovic, and Kamin Whitehouse for their paper "FixtureFinder: Discovering the Existence of Electrical and Water Fixtures," which has been selected as Best Paper Runner Up for IPSN 2013
- Prof. Alf Weaver interviews Annie Anton, chair of the School of Interactive Computing at Georgia Tech, about the importance of gender diversity in computing.
- UVa Hosts Third Annual High School Programming Contest
- Anh Nguyen-Tuong, Jason Hiser and Jack Davidson received a $40,000 grant from the Virginia Innovation Partnership to make the web a safer place. Congratulations! You can read more about the Virginia Innovation Partnership and other recipients of this grant in this UVA Today article
- Congratulations to Charles Eckman who was selected by the UVA CS department's review committee as the recipient of the first Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT) Scholarship
- Congratulations for Prof. Jack Stankovic for giving a keynote talk at Sensornets 2013 in Barcelona, Spain
- Computer Scientist Anita Jones Receives Philip Hauge Abelson Award from AAAS
- Tech Talk sponsored by Intentional Software: Magnus Christerson, Executive Vice President, "Intentional Software." Thursday, January 31, 2013 at 6:30 pm, Rice Hall, Room 120
- For the fourth time in five years, a team from the University of Virginia has advanced to the world finals in the International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC)
- Congratulations to Mary Lou Soffa, Kevin Skadron, and Sang Son for their elevations to IEEE Fellow
- Congratulations to University of Virginia Computer Science Professor John Knight on the publication of his book, "Fundamentals of Dependable Computing for Software Engineering," by CRC Press.
- Congratulations to Mary Lou Soffa for winning the prestigious Ken Kennedy Award!
- UVA Computer Science researchers led by Shahriar Nirjon created a new exercise music app that listens to your heart to rev it up. See article in the Cavalier Daily and in New Scientist
- Special Guest Speaker: Charles Zhang on Mon., October 22nd at 11:00 AM in Olsson 120
- Top Gun Speaker Series: Hillery Hunter on Wed., October 24th at 2:00 PM in Rice 130
- Virginia Introduces Statewide Innovation Partnership with U.S. Department of Commerce
- Engineering Professor Soffa Re-Elected to ACM Council
- Anita Jones to Give Keynote Address at Grace Hopper Celebration
- Please join some of our team members at Palantir Technologies, who will discuss how we build software platforms that help human experts perform powerful, collaborative analysis of data at scale...
- Tech Talk sponsored by Appian: Marco Pescosolido, Chief Architect, "Data - From Storage into the Hands of the People. Techniques for mobile, social software development." Thursday, September 13, 2012 at 6:30 pm, Rice Hall, Room 120
- The Computer Science Department is getting a new Chair. Kevin Skadron will be taking over as Chair starting August 25th as Mary Lou Soffa steps down after 8 years. Congratulations Kevin!
- Congratulations to Shahriar Nirjon and Prof. Jack Stankovic for receiving the Best Paper award at RTAS '12 for their paper: Shahriar Nirjon, Angela Nicoara, Cheng-Hsin Hsu, Jatinder Singh, and John Stankovic, "MultiNets: Policy Oriented Real-Time Switching of Wireless Interfaces on Mobile Devices."
- Prof. Jack Stankovic (Computer Science), John Lach (Electrical and Computer Engineering) and Prof. Karen Rose (School of Nursing) were awarded a new grant from the NIH to research to link between Alzheimer's and incontinence
- Congratulations to Hamid Bagheri and Kevin Sullivan. They received a Distinguished Paper award 2nd place), for the paper, "SpaceMaker: Practical Formal Synthesis of Tradeoff Spaces for Object-Relational Mapping," at the 23rd International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering.
