Mark J. Balas was recently named Director of the Center for Laser Applications at the University of Tennessee Space Institute (UTSI) and appointed Professor in the Department of Mechanical, Aerospace, and Biomedical Engineering, Tickle College of Engineering at the University of Tennessee. He is the Holder of the Jack D. Whitfield Professorship of Dynamic Systems and will direct the newly established UTSI Center for Autonomous and Evolving Systems.
