TENNLab prepares Vols to innovate at any level of neuromorphic technology, a low-cost paradigm that opens doors in government, academic, and industrial sectors.

Associate Professor Scott Ruoti focuses on cybersecurity people will really use. Last year, two of his PhD students published digital security improvements in top-tier venues.

 Last year, Kevin Bai’s lab patented two new technologies, developed through industrial collaborations, improving electric vehicle charging and reliability.

Michela Taufer has been named the MathWorks Professor. The MathWorks Professorship in Scientific Computing was endowed at UT by MathWorks, Inc.

Lonnie Crosby has been helping faculty across campus with high-performance computing issues as part of his role as a Campus Champion for UT.

EECS Professor Hua “Kevin’ Bai has been elected as a National Academy of Inventors (NAI) Fellow for his exceptional achievements as an inventor.

PhD students Danny Scott and Imran Fahad traveled to Finland to receive the EPIC Lab’s ACM Distinguished Paper Award at UbiComp/ISWC 2025.

EECS alumnus Mounir Laroussi (PhD ’88) was awarded the 2026 Will Allis Prize for the Study of Ionized Gases by the American Physical Society.

Throughout his highly varied career spanning academia and industry, EECS PhD alum Mike McCollum has drawn on the agility and confidence he developed at UT.

Thanks to their strong foundation in hardware and research, 14 of Professor Ben Blalock’s alumni are now engineers at the Knoxville branch of Texas Instruments.