Public forums for candidates for UT Knoxville’s vice chancellor for research position will continue next week.
Michael Pazzani, vice president for research and graduate professional education at Rutgers University, will speak from 2:00 to 3:30 p.m. Wednesday, September 28, at the Baker Center Toyota Auditorium. Pazzani has taught computer science at Rutgers since 2005. Prior to joining the faculty at Rutgers, he served as the director of the Information and Intelligent Systems Division of Computer and Information Science and Engineering for the National Science Foundation. He taught in the Department of Information and Computer Science at the University of California, Irvine, for eighteen years and served as chair of the department for six years. He holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in computer engineering from the University of Connecticut, and a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of California, Los Angeles.
Information on additional candidate forums will be announced in the near future. For more information on candidate forum, contact the Office of Research at 974-3466.