Last month, our faculty members, staff, and students were honored at the Gonzalez Family Awards Banquet. This annual event recognizes excellence in teaching, research, and performance and allows outstanding people to gain recognition for their efforts. bit.ly/42TPdON

The University’s new cluster hiring initiatives program unites faculty across disciplines to tackle grand challenges in Tennessee and beyond. EECS is heavily involved with 25 faculty members across five of the seven cluster initiatives. Learn more: bit.ly/4k5w2qO

Congratulations to Jamin Hanna, Von Hermoso, and Benjamin Kreider on being selected as the 2025 Bodenheimer Fellowship recipients in the Min H. Kao Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS)! Learn more about the recipients below: 🔗 bit.ly/4mfrr7d

Emeritus Professor Jack Dongarra was published in The Conversation, sharing his thoughts on the choices surrounding the future of high-performance computing! Read more at the link below ⬇️ 🔗 bit.ly/3YQIuCO

Three years ago, Prof. Nicole McFarlane launched an NSF-funded REU in microelectronics. Since then, students nationwide have joined us for hands-on research with top faculty, gaining real lab experience and a passion for discovery. 🔗 bit.ly/3H1vbJA

Congratulations to Mohaanavarshini Samanthavada Chandrasekar, who won the Student Scholarship Award at the Tennessee Environmental Network Show of the South Conference for her research on developing biosensors for detecting PFAS contamination in water! 🔗 bit.ly/4kOHuYh

Congratulations to Dongarra Professor Michela Taufer, who received the 2025 Achievement Award in High Performance Distributed Computing for her impactful work in volunteer computing and advancing HPC! Visit the link to learn more! 🔗 bit.ly/3TraI3T

Last month, Professor and Associate Department Head Daniel Costinett chaired the IEEE Power Electronics Society’s 26th Annual Workshop on Control and Modeling for Power Electronics, discussing the latest advances in the field. 🔗 bit.ly/44G7oH7

Assistant Professor Catherine Schuman will speak at the 2025 NAE Frontiers of Engineering Symposium. 👏 Schuman will discuss how emerging computing paradigms offer opportunities for performance improvements over conventional computing platforms. 🔗 bit.ly/4kNXXeZ

In partnership with CFD Research Corporation, EECS Professor Jayne Wu and UTIA Professor Shigetoshi Eda are creating a handheld sensor to reliably diagnose complex diseases, like PTSD, with a single test. Tickle College of Engineering 🔗 bit.ly/4mlSnlg

Associate Professor Micah Beck recently returned from a Fulbright Award trip to France, where he collaborated on a supercomputing project and made new connections! Learn more about his time in France by reading the story below! 🔗 bit.ly/3J0SPXH

Dongarra Professor Michela Taufer and Assistant Professor Sai Swaminathan are lending their expertise in AI to a $5M project spearheaded by USC to overhaul Pegasus, U.S. National Science Foundation nationwide workflow management system, to make it more adaptable and user-friendly. bit.ly/45O4NfZ

Faculty members from our department are involved in two collaborative NSF grants that will address health disparities research and enhance the performance and productivity of AI science. Click the link below to learn how! bit.ly/41dfwOy

Professor Emeritus Jack Dongarra is interviewed by WIRED magazine regarding the future of supercomputing and artificial intelligence. See the interview below! 🔗 bit.ly/4lF2TmG

The MSCS is the largest online master’s program at TCE, with 187 students, and is ranked fifth overall at the university. The program helps fulfill UT’s land-grant mission of increasing access to the state’s flagship land-grant and research university. 🔗 bit.ly/4n60ra4

Congratulations to Dongarra Professor Michela Taufer on being named to the HPCwire 35 Legends Class of 2025 based on her contributions to the High Performance Computing community! See the full story below ⬇️ bit.ly/4lUbodO

Assistant Professor Catherine Schuman, her grad students, and collaborators at ORNL have been working on a biological brain-inspired computing system that determines the best fuel injection parameters at a lower power cost than competing models. 🔗 bit.ly/47kU0LH

Congratulations to UT-ORNL Governor’s Chair Professor for Power Grids, Yilu Liu, on receiving her fifth prestigious R&D 100 Award! 👏 Liu’s most recent award recognizes the Universal GridEdge Analyzer. Read more about the honor below! #TeamTCE 🔗 bit.ly/4mP1kEc

EECS is looking for new assistant professors and associate professors to educate our talented #EngineeringVols. 🧠 Interested? See the full list of open positions at the link below! 🔗 bit.ly/46yOh2X

⭐️ Assistant Professor Ahmedullah Aziz has been named one of MIT’s 35 Innovators Under 35 in the Asia Pacific region for his transformative work with superconducting electronics. Read more about the recognition at the link below! 🔗 bit.ly/4mJ91el