Lynne Parker is returning to the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, after completing a four-year post as deputy United States chief technology officer and director of the National Artificial Intelligence Initiative Office within the White House.

For more than 30 years, the Innovative Computing Laboratory has taken on challenge after challenge, helping it become a driving force in high-performance computing. Now, recently appointed Director Hartwig Anzt has a new idea for the ICL and what he hopes it can become.

A new EECS scholarship, the Dibyendu (Dipu) and Anindita (Ann) Mukherjee Endowed Scholarship, will help students who are interested in data science, which comprises but is not limited to the fields of artificial intelligence, machine learning, and deep learning. Its first recipient is EECS senior and computer science major Maria Hernandez Rivero.

Steven Corum, Adam Foshie, and Daniel Mishler have been awarded a 2022 Bodenheimer Fellowship in the Min H. Kao Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.

Three EECS students were among the forty-eight graduating undergraduate and graduate students in the Tickle College of Engineering who received a 2022 Volunteer of Distinction award in recognition of their academic achievements.

Tickle College of Engineering alum and former interim dean Lynne Parker has been named an Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) Fellow for 2022.

Assistant Professor Jian Liu and his Mobile Sensing and Intelligence Security (MOSIS) Lab have been recognized by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) for a recent paper on facial landmark tracking and 3D reconstruction.

Members of the UT Amateur Radio Club launched a radio balloon mission on Saturday, April 23, in a mission to transmit weather and location data via ham radio.

Ashley Babjac, a computer science PhD student studying machine learning with Associate Professor Scott Emrich, has been named a recipient of a 2022 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship from the National Science Foundation.

Jack Dongarra, Distinguished Professor of Computer Science in UT’s Tickle College of Engineering and Distinguished Research Staff Member at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, made headlines around the world after receiving the 2021 Turing Award from the Association for Computing Machinery.