Group

Principal Investigators

Dr. James Plank

Professor, EECS

jplank@utk.edu

Dr. Garrett Rose

Professor, EECS

garose@vols.utk.edu

Dr. Catherine Schuman

Assistant Professor, EECS

cschuman@vols.utk.edu

Dr. Ahmedullah Aziz

Assistant Professor, EECS

aziz@utk.edu

Dr. Nathaniel Cady

Professor, SUNY Polytech

Research Faculty, Post-Docs, Emeritus Professors

Dr. Charlie Rizzo

Research Assistant Professor. TENNLab PhD, 2024 (Advisor: James Plank)

Dr. Simon Levy

TENNLab Research Professor. Professor, Washington & Lee University.

Dr. J. Douglas Birdwell

Professor Emeritus, EECS

birdwell@utk.edu

Dr. Mark Dean

Professor Emiritus, EECS; IBM Fellow

markdean@utk.edu

Collaborators

Landon Crawford

Embedded Hardware and Software Engineer, Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

Dr. Ashish Gautam

Postdoctoral Research Associate, Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

Dr. Md Sakib Hasan

Assistant Professor
Department of Electrical Engineering
University of Mississippi. TENNLab PhD, 2017 (Advisor: Garrett Rose), and Postdoc 2017-2019.

Dr. Shruti Kulkarni

Post-Doctoral Researcher, Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

Dr. Maryam Parsa

Assistant Professor, George Mason University. Former post-doc with Catherine Schuman.

Dr. Andy Sarles

James Conklin Fellow and Associate Professor, Mechanical, Aerospace and Biomedical Engineering Department, University of Tennessee

Dr. Mst Shamim Ara Shawkat

Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Florida International University. TENNLab Postdoc, 2019-2021 (Advisor: Garrett Rose).

Shay Snyder

Graduate Student, George Mason University (Advisor: Maryam Parsa)

Brett Witherspoon

Harware and Software Engineer, Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

Dr. Aaron Young

Architectures and Performance Group, Oak Ridge National Lab. TENNLab PhD 2020 (Advisor: Mark Dean)

Advisor: Catherine Schuman

Chris White

Advisor: James Plank

Undergraduate Researchers

Alumni

Jason Chan

MS, Computer Engineering, 2015.
Advisor: Mark Dean.

Chris Daffron

MS, Computer Engineering, 2015.
Advisor: Mark Dean.
Most recent info:
Intel.

Meg Drouhard

MS, Computer Science, 2015.
Advisor: Doug Birdwell.
Most recent info:
PhD student at the University of Washington.
User Researcher, Tableau Software, Seattle.

Josh Willis

MS, Computer Science, 2015.
Advisor: Doug Birdwell.

Alex Klibisz

BS, Computer Science, 2016.
Research Advisor: James Plank.
Most recent info: Senior Software Engineer - Tesla

Daniel Caballero

BS, Computer Science, 2017.
Research advisor: Garrett Rose.

Jacob Davis

MS, Computer Engineering, 2017.
Advisor: James Plank.
Most recent info: Garmin.

Patricia Eckhart

MS, Computer Engineering, 2017.
Research Advisor: Mark Dean Most recent info:
RF and Intelligent Systems, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Victoria Florence

BS, Computer Engineering, 2017.
Research advisor: James Plank. Most recent info:
MS in Robotics, University of Michigan, 2019. Robotics Software Engineer, CreateMe.

Miles Gepner

BS, Computer Science, 2017.
Research Advisor: Garrett Rose Most recent info:
MS in Computer Science, University of Massachusetts, 2019. Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Paramount.

Philip McKnight

BS, Computer Science, 2017.
Research Advisor: James Plank Most recent info:
Security Research Engineer, Cisco

Elvis Offor

BS, Computer Engineering, 2017.
Research advisor: Garrett Rose. Most recent info:
PNNL in Washington State.

Michael Wilder

BS, Computer Engineering, 2017.
Research advisor: Garrett Rose.

Jeremy Anantharaj

BS, Computer Science, 2018.
Research advisor: James Plank. Most recent info:
Amazon, Seattle.

Grant Bruer

BS, Computer Science and Physics, 2018.
Research advisor: James Plank. Most recent info:
PhD Student at Georgia Tech

Ksenia Burova

MS, Computer Science, 2018.
Research advisor: James Plank. Most recent info:
RAM Technologies in San Diego

Adam Disney

PhD, Computer Science, 2018.
Research advisor: James Plank. Most recent info:
Lecturer, EECS Department, University of Tennessee

Trevor Dixon

BS, Computer Science, 2018.
Research advisor: James Plank. Most recent info:
Pariveda Solutions in Dallas

Dr. Roger Horn

Research Professor

Matthew Legate

Worked with us in 2018.
Research Advisor: Catherine Schuman.

Leroy Todd

Worked with us in 2018.
Research Advisor: James Plank.
Most recent info:
Graduate Student, University of Tennessee

Clarence Wong

MS, Computer Engineering, 2018.
Research Advisor: Garrett Rose Most recent info:
Army, Redstone Arsenal, Huntsville, AL.

Sherif Amer

PhD, Computer Engineering, 2018.
Research advisor: Garrett Rose.
Most recent info:
Engineer - Emerging Memory, Micron, Boise, ID.

Gangotree Chakma

PhD, Electrical Engineering, 2019.
Research advisor: Garrett Rose. Most recent info:
Design Engineer at Micron.

Syd Shelby

BS, Computer Science, 2020.
Research advisor: James Plank. Most recent info:
Associate Software Development Engineer in Computational Biology at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis.

Hongyu An

Worked with us in 2019.
Advisor: Catherine Schuman
Most Recent Info: Assistant Professor, ECE Department, Michigan Technological University.

MaryBeth Burst

BS, Mathematics, 2019.
Research Advisor: James Plank.
Most recent info:
Children's Program Coordinator at Centro Hispano in Knoxville (AmeriCorps VISTA).

Chris Dean

BS, Computer Science, 2019.
Advisor: James Plank.
Most Recent Info:
MS, University of North Carolina
Cisco

Mihaela Dimovska

Worked with us in 2019.
Advisor: Catherine Schuman
ORNL Intern, Summer, 2019
Phd Student at Tennessee/Minnesota

Michael Goin

BS, Computer Science, 2019.
Research Advisor: James Plank.
Most recent info:
Product Engineering Lead at Neural Magic in Boston.

Wilkie Olin-Ammentorp

PhD, SUNY Polytech, 2019.
Research advisor: Nathaniel Cady. Most recent info:
Postdoctoral Scholar, Medicine, School of Health Sciences, UCSD.

Michael Peek

Worked with us from 2015 through 2019.
Advisor: James Plank.
Most recent info: National Institute for Mathematical and Biologigal Synthesis, UT, Knoxville.

John Reynolds

PhD, Computer Science, 2019.
Research advisor: James Plank. Most recent info:
Machine Learning Engineer, LucD, Nashville, TN.

Grace Zhao

MS, Computer Science, 2019.
Research Advisor: James Plank.
Most recent info:
Google.

Jonathan Ambrose

MS, Computer Engineering, 2020. Advisor: Mark Dean
Most recent info:
Red Wire Technologies.

Kody Bloodworth

BS, Computer Science, 2020.
Advisor: James Plank.
Most recent info: PYA Analytics in Knoxville.

Sam Brown

MS, Electrical Engineering, 2020.
Research advisor: Garrett Rose. Most recent info:
Design Verification Engineer, Texas Instruments

Brent Hurst

MS, Computer Science, 2020
Advisor: James Plank.
Most recent info: Computer Science Teacher - Knoxville Christian School

Sagarvarma Sayyaparaju

PhD, Computer Engineering, 2020.
Advisor: Garrett Rose
Most recent info: Architecture Research Scientist, Intel, Bangalore, India.

Alec Yen

BS, Electrical Engineering, 2020.
Research advisor: Mark Dean.Most recent info:
PhD program at MIT.

Musabbir Adnan

PhD, Computer Engineering, 2021.
Advisor: Garrett Rose. Most recent info:
Texas Instruments, Knoxville.

Arden Davis

Summer student, 2021. Advisor: James Plank.

Mark Lee

BS, Electrical Engineering, 2021.
Advisor: Garrett Rose. Most recent info:
PhD Student at Georgia Tech

Parker Mitchell

BS/MS, Computer Engineering, 2019.
Research Advisor: Mark Dean.
Post-Masters Researcher: ORNL until 2021.
Most recent info:
Azure Hardware Architecture, Microsoft.

Ben Sergent

MS, Computer Engineering, 2021.
Research Advisor: Garrett Rose. Most recent info:
Lead Game Developer, Partyup.

Alex Twilla

BS, Computer Engineering, 2021.
Advisor: Garrett Rose.

Samantha Zimmerman

BS, Computer Engineering, 2021.
Advisor: Garrett Rose. Most recent info:
Garmin

John Carmack

BS, Computer Science, 2022.
Research Advisor: James Plank.
Associate Software Engineer, Anaplan in San Francisco

Zach DeGuira

BS, Computer Engineering, 2022.
Advisor: Garrett Rose. Most recent info:
Texas Instruments, Knoxville.

Tanner Fowler

BS, Computer Engineering, 2022.
Advisor: Garrett Rose. Most recent info:
Applied Physics Laboratory, Johns Hopkins

Katherine Huckabay

BS, Computer Engineering, 2022.
Advisors: James Plank and Garrett Rose.
Most Recent info: Texas Instruments

Casey Mackinnon

BS, Electrical Engineering, 2022.
Advisor: Garrett Rose. Most recent info:
Software Engineer & Equity Analyst at Knox Wealth Partners

Ryan Weiss

PhD, Computer Engineering, 2022.
Advisor: Garrett Rose. Most recent info:
Texas Instruments, Knoxville.

ChaoHui Zheng

MS, Computer Science, 2022.
Research advisor: James Plank. Most recent info:
Google

Adam Foshie

MS, Computer Engineering.
Research Advisor: Garrett Rose.
Most recent info:
Texas Instruments

Grayson Hays

Summer student, 2023. Advisor: Catherine Schuman.

Braden Hechmer

Summer student, 2023. Advisor: Catherine Schuman.

Dominic Kennedy

BS, Computer Science, 2023.
Advisor: James Plank. Most recent info:
PhD Student, University of Utah

John Murray

MS, Computer Engineering.
Advisor: Garrett Rose. Most recent info:
Texas Instruments, Knoxville.

Amelie Nagle

Summer student, 2023. Advisor: Catherine Schuman.

Thomas Neuefeind

BS, Computer Science, 2023.
Research advisor: James Plank. Most recent info:
Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Austin Oliver

Summer student, 2023. Advisor: Catherine Schuman.

Ankush Patel

MS, Computer Science, 2023.
Research advisor: James Plank. Most recent info:
spice.cloud

Anderson Walsh

BS, Computer Science, 2023.
Advisor: James Plank.

Will Buziak

BS Computer Science, 2024.
Research Advisor: James Plank
Most Recent Information: Graduate student, Colorado School of Mines.

Nishith Chakraborty

PhD, Computer Engineering, 2024.
Advisor: Garrett Rose. Most recent info:
Assistant Professor, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo

Jiawei Chen

BS, Computer Science, 2024.
Advisor: James Plank. Most recent info:
Firmware engineer. Hopefully he'll return?

Alex Crumley

MS, Computer Engineering, 2024.
Research advisor: Catherin Schuman. Most recent info:
Texas Instruments.

Dr. Hritom Das

Postdoc until 2024.
Research dvisor: Garrett Rose.
Most recent info: Assistant Professor, Oklahoma State University

Louise Fry

Worked with us in 2023-2024. We're hoping she'll return! Advisor: James Plank

Jack Hutchins

MS Electrical Engineering, 2024. Advisor: Ahmedullah Aziz. Currently working at ORNL, but set to rejoin us in Spring, 2025.

Manu Rathore

PhD, Computer Engineering, 2024.
Advisor: Garrett Rose. Most recent info:
Texas Instruments, Knoxville.

Nick Skuda

PhD, Computer Science, 2024.
Research advisor: James Plank. Most recent info:
Sources and Detectors Group, NIST, Boulder, CO.

Edward Tan

Worked with us in 2023-2024. Research advisor: Garrett Rose.

Jonathan Ting

MS, Computer Engineering, 2024.
Advisor: Garrett Rose. Most recent info:
NVIDIA

Lexi Velas

MS Computer Science, 2024. Advisor: Catherine Schuman.

Kuba Zeligowski

BS Computer Science, 2024. Advisors: James Plank and Catherine Schuman

Shamiul Alam

Advisor: Ahmedullah Aziz

Meghan Brandt

MS, Computer Engineering, 2025.
Research advisor: James Plank. Most recent info:
Graduate Student, Computer Science, ETH Zürich

Daniel Mallett

BS Computer Science, 2025. Advisor: James Plank. Most Recent Info: Software Engineer for Ambition (www.ambition.com) in Nashville.

Julia Steed

MS, Computer Science, 2025.
Research advisor: Catherine Schuman. Most recent info:
Garmin.

Anna Weis

MS, Computer Engineering, 2025.
Research advisor: Garrett Rose.