Silvina Caino-Lores has been awarded for HPC/big data workforce development project that addresses the challenge of understanding scientific data, specifically those generated through large scale simulations.

Power electronics faculty and students from CURENT attended the IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Expo (ECCE) last week in Detroit, Michigan, the world’s largest power electronics conference.

EECS Assistant Professor Catherine Schuman was a featured speaker at last week’s Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing in Orlando, Florida, relating how she and her group of collaborators used neuromorphic computing to control a small, autonomous model race car.

The Center for Ultra-Wide-Area Resilient Electric Energy Transmission Networks (CURENT) hosted the IEEE International Future Energy Challenge (IFEC) 2022, the largest international student competition in power electronics for innovation, conservation, and effective use of electrical energy, in the Min H. Kao Building on July 27-29.

Assistant Professor of Computer Science Catherine Schuman mentored two recent high school graduates and a current high school student as they worked on neuromorphic computing projects together. The students presented a poster for their work at a neuromorphic computing conference.

Assistant Professor Scott Ruoti discusses proof-of-stake, an energy-efficient way for blockchain technology users to validate their identities by demonstrating ownership of some asset on the blockchain, such as bitcoins, for example.

With a new project funded by the NSF, Chien-fei Chen researches disparities in the accessibility and affordability of technology and energy and is working to improve energy justice for underserved communities.

UT-ORNL Governor’s Chair Professor for Power Grids Yilu Liu recently won her third R&D 100 Award within the last four years for her research into stabilizing large-scale power grids. The 2022 award recognizes Liu’s latest innovation, GridEye, the first monitoring network to cover the entire North American power grid.

The University of Tennessee Amateur Radio Club (UTARC) participated in the Student Engagement Fair on Friday, August 26, demonstrating their equipment and answering questions for interested students.

EECS joint faculty member Edmon Begoli, Research Associate Sudarshan Srinivasan, and PhD student Maria Mahbub recently presented a tutorial at SIGIR 2022, a top-ranked computer science conference on the topic of information retrieval held in Madrid, Spain.