Faculty
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UT Spearheads Development of Novel Integrated EV Charger-Inverter
As part of a $3M DOE grant, EECS Associate Professor JiangBiao He will spearhead development of an integrated charger-inverter to enable fast charging in electric cars.
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TCE Researchers Join Nearly $1 Million Project to Build Local Smart Food Production Network
Faculty members from TCE are part of a $1 million NSF interdisciplinary project aimed at expanding the production and distribution of locally grown food.
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Seed Boost
Five faculty members from TCE are leading teams that have been awarded funding by ORIED for multidisciplinary energy and environment research projects.
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Popovs and Ivanov Receive R&D 100 Award Recognition
Nuclear Engineering Associate Professor Ilja Popovs and Assistant Professor Alex Ivanov were both involved in projects that received a prestigious 2026 R&D 100 Award.
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TCE Faculty Contribute to DOE Genesis Mission
Three faculty members in the college are co-principal investigators (co-PIs) on research projects funded by the DOE’s new Genesis Mission.
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Deleting Yeast DNA to Save Lives
Professor Cong Trinh and Assistant Professor Seunghyun Ryu will refine their fungal gene-editing platform to help treat deadly yeast infections and expand biomanufacturing.
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UT Secures $20M NSF Grant to Pioneer Breakthroughs in Automated Materials Discovery
UT has been awarded $20 million from the NSF to establish ATHENA, one of 20 research centers that will be part of a network of AI-powered labs.
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Early Career Momentum
Tickle College of Engineering Assistant Professors Sai Swaminathan and Ahmedullah Aziz have received Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Awards from the National Science Foundation.
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Page Honored as Athletics Professor of Excellence
Katharine Page was one of six University of Tennessee faculty members to receive the Athletics Professor of Excellence award for the 2026-27 academic year.
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AI Advancing Next-Generation Forecasts
Professor Joshua Fu and Associate Professor Jia Xing are helping NVIDIA integrate atmospheric composition into its Earth-2 AI foundation model ecosystem to improve the accuracy of weather prediction.