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Virginia Tech Institute of Advanced Computing (Alexandria, Virginia)

About the department

We are part of the comprehensive and highly-ranked College of Engineering and collaborate extensively on transdisciplinary research and education initiatives across the college, university, and at other institutions. 

We have 86 faculty members, including 67 tenured or tenure-track, 26 early career awardees, and numerous recipients of awards from IBM, Intel, AMD, Microsoft, Google, Facebook, Cisco, and others. Our faculty members direct several interdisciplinary research centers, including the Center for Human-Computer Interaction, the Center for Community Empowering Pandemic Prediction and Prevention from Atoms to Societies, and the Sanghani Center for Artificial Intelligence and Data Analytics. The department is home to 976 graduate students and more than 1,700 undergraduate majors.

About Virginia Tech

Virginia Tech is a public, land-grant university committed to teaching and learning, research, and outreach to the Commonwealth of Virginia, the nation, and the world. Building on its motto of Ut Prosim (that I may serve), the university is dedicated to InclusiveVT and the spirit of community, diversity, and excellence. Virginia Tech actively seeks a broad spectrum of candidates passionate about preparing leaders for tomorrow's world to apply with us.

The College of Engineering undergraduate program ranks 13th, and its graduate program ranks 31st among all U.S. engineering schools, according to U.S. News and World Report. The mission of the College of Engineering is to educate and inspire our students to think critically, innovate, and lead. Our core values are inclusiveness, excellence, integrity, perseverance, and stewardship.  

Our main campus is located in Blacksburg, Virginia, in an area consistently ranked among the country's best places to live. Our department occupies over 70,000 square feet across several buildings on the Blacksburg campus, including Torgersen Hall and the new Data and Decision Sciences Building and Gilbert Place facility.

In addition, our programs in the greater Washington, D.C., area -- including the new Institute for Advanced Computing  Alexandria, Virginia -- offer unique proximity to government and industry partners and also are expanding rapidly.

Our commitment to excellence

The department fully embraces the university's commitment to:

• inspire excellence in our faculty, staff, and student body
• ensure a welcoming, affirming, safe, and accessible campus climate
• advance our research, teaching, and service mission

Virginia Tech does not discriminate against employees, students, or applicants on the basis of age, color, disability, sex (including pregnancy), gender, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information, ethnicity or national origin, political affiliation, race, religion, sexual orientation, or military status, or otherwise discriminate against employees or applicants who inquire about, discuss, or disclose their compensation or the compensation of other employees or applicants, or on any other basis protected by law.