Category Archives: Research
Chakraborty’s Startup Selected for AI Cohort
Startup company Asters has been accepted into the fourth cohort of the Transform accelerator for data science and AI startups by the University of Chicago’s Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation and Data Science Institute.

Molding a New Workforce
A unique collaboration between the Tickle College of Engineering and the University of Tennessee School of Art is helping address the workforce shortage in the U.S casting and forging industry through hosting METAL bootcamps.

How Fast is a Mach 4 Field Goal? UTSI Interns Found the Answer
Associate Professor Phillip Kreth and a team of student interns put a football and a baseball in a Mach 4 wind tunnel to help the general public conceptualize hypersonic speeds.

Surgical Robot Project Receives Up to $12 Million in ARPA-H Funding
MABE Associate Professor Caleb Rucker and a team from the University of Tennessee are part of a landmark, multi-institution surgical robot project that received up to $12 million in funding from ARPA-H.

Zhang to Explore Novel Property of Laser-Induced Plasmas with ECLIPSE Grant
After discovering a surprising feature of some laser-induced plasmas, Zhili Zhang has been awarded an NSF grant to continue studying the useful phenomenon.

RISE Project Awarded NIH Grant
Xiaopeng Zhao is part of a collaborative team that has been awarded a $401,090 grant from the National Institutes of Health for the project RISE, which uses a robot with AI tools to help caregivers in the Alzheimer’s community.