Thomas Howard, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering, has been selected as a 2019 Wilmot Assistant Professor.
The two-year appointments, one in each of the four divisions of Arts, Sciences and Engineering, include an annual research fund of $5,000. Tom, who joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering in 2015, is “hitting it out of the park in all aspects of his job performance,” says Mark Bocko, chair of the department. “He has built a fantastic experimental robotics laboratory, he has been a generous and effective research mentor to many students, from undergraduates to PhD students, and he clearly is highly respected by the robotics academic community with papers regularly accepted at international conferences and journals.” Read more here.