Reina Ortega is an administrative associate in the Min H. Kao Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, having started in October 2022.

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

Associate Professor Himanshu Thapliyal and graduate student Tyler Cultice’s work to identify security vulnerabilities was featured in IEEE’s Consumer Electronics Magazine.

A project involving EECS Department Head Greg Peterson, joint Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) faculty member Edmon Begoli, and doctoral student Maria Mahbub aims to improve machine reading comprehension for medical visits, using computer-assisted “reading comprehension” to help machines quickly scan medical documents and extract critical data.

EECS assistant professor Katie Schuman is part of a federally-funded project that aims to change the future of computing, with a new “toolbox” of applications and algorithms.

Tickle College of Engineering Professor Michela Taufer has been chosen to moderate a featured panel on data democratization, at the March 8 Women in Data Science conference at Stanford University.

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

New EECS Assistant Professor Sai Swaminathan seeks to help users overcome challenges in computer and mobile device interactions via improved systems.

Everything from medicine to transportation to neutron detection could be improved, thanks to Katherine Schuman’s research into neuromorphic computing.

For the past six years, UT’s National Institute for Computational Sciences (NICS) has collaborated with food company Mars Inc., resulting with the creation of MARVEL, the Mars Advanced Research Virtual Environment Lab. MARVEL provides a meeting place where NICS and UT researchers can interact with Mars scientists and facilitate their research.