Bio

Catherine (Katie) Schuman is an assistant professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Tennessee. She was previously a research scientist at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Her primary research interests are neuromorphic computing, spiking neural networks, and evolutionary optimization. She received her B.S. in computer science and mathematics from the University of Tennessee in 2010, and her Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Tennessee in 2015.