Anahita Khojandi has built her research career around a guiding belief: Artificial intelligence should empower people—not replace them. A professor in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering and Heath Endowed Faculty Fellow in Business and Engineering, Khojandi designs decision-making systems that operate under uncertainty and support human users in high-impact real-world environments. In settings […]
In the fall of 2023, the University of Tennessee launched the multidisciplinary Institute for Future Mobility, a research cluster devoted to revolutionizing the transportation sector in Knoxville and around the world. Since its inception, the institute has hired six tenure-track faculty and eight new research faculty across three UT colleges, the Center for Transportation Research (CTR), and the UT-Oak […]
Few could have predicted how quickly facemasks and hand sanitizer would go flying off the shelves when the Covid-19 pandemic gripped the world in 2020. The items had not been a regular part of society’s daily life, and supply chains were not prepared to respond to the need in such a short amount of time. […]
Matthew Davis and Allison Rewalt were both honored at the 34th annual University Transportation Centers (UTC) Program’s Outstanding Student of the Year Awards ceremony in January in Washington D.C. Davis, a doctoral graduate student in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, was named Outstanding Student of the Year by the Center for Regional and Rural Connected […]
Technology has made receiving items at home easier than ever. If you need laundry detergent from the store, you can have it delivered instantaneously. If you see a pair of shoes you want to wear this week, they can arrive within two days. If you don’t feel like cooking one night, you can order a […]
The Institute for Future Mobility (FMI) has hired researchers to fill four of six cluster positions. The four researchers will form a collaborative community cluster led by Professor Kevin Heaslip, the Center for Transportation Research Director. Professor Heaslip: “These new hires will complement the faculty who are already part of the University of Tennessee Knoxville […]
In May of 2024, Carol Hatmaker officially retired from CTR. Carol has graciously agreed to work part-time during the next several months to aid new Business Manager Tammy Johnson with the transition. Those who have worked with Carol during her 23-year career with CTR have seen the contributions and sacrifices that Carol has made over […]
As you drive to the beach this summer, you may find yourself playing road trip games based on the license plates around you. How many states’ plates do you see? How many different animals can you find? Can you find a plate in every color of the rainbow? Can you write an algorithm that recognizes, […]
CGTN’s Asieh Namdar speaks to Kevin Heaslip, Director of the Center for Transportation Research, about the ship losing power and issuing a mayday before crash. Watch the video here
Kevin Bai, associate professor in the Min H. Kao Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS), shares a principle-investigator role in a collaboration with the ABB Group’s US Research Center to develop an integrated, compact drive inverter and motor for electric vehicles that would reduce both the size and cost of electric drive trains. Bai’s proposed […]
Day one of the event is in the books after presentations and “asks” from several speakers. Now, the hard work begins. Deb Crawford clearly outlined the opportunities and challenges that a group of more than 100 partners is trying to address under the auspices of the TEAM TN umbrella. Speaking Tuesday morning at the start […]
UT graduate students Ashley Hightower and Grace Whitehouse both received prestigious Eisenhower fellowship grants to help fund their research in the transportation field. Hightower received the maximum amount awarded. Read the full article here
Stanford University’s annual list of the top 2% of scientists cited by other researchers around the world was recently released, and this year’s version includes 183 faculty members from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, including the UT Institute of Agriculture. The database includes almost 205,000 scientists, engineers and mathematicians worldwide whose work has been most […]
