The Network Mechanics Group
Rice Hall
85 Engineer's Way
Charlottesville, VA 22903
Welcome! We are the Network Mechanics Group in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Virginia.
We do research on computer networks and systems. This includes research in network monitoring as well as improving the performance, efficiency, reliability, privacy, and security of networked systems.
We analyze. We fix. We improve.
We are network mechanics.
news
| Oct 07, 2025 | Md. Mahir Ashhab received the ACM IMC 2025 travel grant! Congratulations to Mahir! He will also present a poster about L4S-based video conferencing applications at the conference. |
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| Aug 26, 2025 | Three new PhD students joined our group, starting in Fall 2025! Welcome, Boyang, Siyuan, and Tawsif! |
| Jul 25, 2025 | The work on scalable video conferencing (Scallop) got accepted to SIGCOMM 2025! |
| Apr 17, 2025 | Di Zhu passed his qualifying exam! Congratulations, Di! Now a proud Ph.D. candidate! |
| Oct 31, 2024 | Prospective Students (Fall 2025): Our research group have spots for PhD students interested in doing research in systems and networking! APPLY HERE! |
| Oct 29, 2024 | Di Zhu will present his ongoing work, “Automating Distributed In-network Classification with Runtime Programmability,” at the ACM CoNEXT 2024 Student Workshop in December 2024! |
| Oct 29, 2024 | Di Zhu received the ACM CoNEXT 2024 travel grant! Congratulations to Di! |
| Jan 22, 2024 | Group website is up!!   |