Director of the AI Tennessee Initiative Lynne Parker was honored by the Computing Research Association with its distinguished service award.

Assistant Professor Ahmedullah Aziz earned the grade of Senior Member of the IEE — the highest professional grade for the organization.

CURENT Director and UT Chancellor’s Professor Kevin Tomsovic has been elected to the National Academy of Engineering.

The launching of the new online MS in computer science was featured in Fortune | Education.

Longtime UT and ORNL Professor Jack Dongarra was named the AM Turing Award winner for 2021 for his contributions to computing.

PhD student Chandler Bauder won first prize in the highly competitive the student competition at the National Radio Science Meeting 2022 (NSRM 2022), held January 4–8 at the University of Colorado at Boulder.

EECS Dongarra Professor Michela Taufer is part of a national team of researchers working to build the critical technology needed to sew-up the national computational infrastructure. They have just been awarded $5.6M from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for their efforts.

UT and AT&T are collaborating on new research surrounding 5G technology, with faculty in the Tickle College of Engineering playing key roles.

Included in that group are two University of Tennessee alumni from what is now the Min H. Kao Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Lynne Parker (’83) and Mark Dean (’79). In addition to their shared ties to the department, both later served as interim deans of the Tickle College of Engineering, giving UT a strong connection to the new task force.

Mench, a Chancellor’s Professor, the Condra Chair of Excellence, and a professor of mechanical engineering in the Department of Mechanical, Aerospace, and Biomedical Engineering, has served as interim dean since February. Mench joined UT in 2010 after serving as an associate professor of mechanical engineering at Pennsylvania State University.