Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Blacksburg, VA·Public·Medical school
35 labs on PI Pages. It spends $657M a year on research and awards 496 research doctorates a year.
- Students
- 40,548: 31,731 undergraduates, 8,817 graduate
- Postdocs
- 308
- Faculty
- 2,219 full-time
- Campus
- Primarily residential
Labs here
Rose Qingyang Hu
Engineering
Reconstruct how wireless signal energy varies with position and direction by combining sparse channel state information measurements with 3D environment layouts rebuilt from images, using radiance-field-inspired models and array signal processing.
Chun Jun Cao
Physics·Early-career
Develop fault-tolerant decoding and error-correction protocols for holographic codes, which are quantum error-correcting codes inspired by quantum gravity and built from tensor networks.
Eli Vlaisavljevich
Biomedical Engineering
Design a flat, high-frequency histotripsy array transducer with built-in high-resolution ultrasound imaging, and tune its pulse settings to destroy thyroid tissue while sparing nearby nerves and vessels.
Prahalada Rao
Engineering
Develop physics-informed machine learning models that predict outcomes of laser wire directed energy deposition (laser-and-wire metal 3D printing) and optimize laser power, scan speed and tool paths before printing.
Paul Cazeaux
Mathematics & Statistics
Prove subspace embedding and distortion bounds for TTStack sketches, random projections built on tensor trains, and characterize trade-offs among sketch size, accuracy and block structure.
Where its research money goes
A year of research spending, from the NSF survey every research university fills in.