Jul 19, 2021
By Victoria Grdina
Computer Science and Engineering Department Chair Marilyn Wolf has been honored with the 2022 IEEE Leon K. Kirchmayer Graduate Teaching Award.
The award recognizes inspirational teaching of graduate students in the IEEE fields of interest. Wolf received the award for “creating a community of researchers and practitioners in embedded computing through education, outreach, and research.”
Marilyn Wolf is an Elmer E. Koch Professor of Engineering and has been the chair of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln since 2019. Her research interests include cyber-physical systems, Internet-of-Things, embedded computing, embedded computer vision, and VLSI systems. Previously, she has also received the IEEE Computer Society Goode Memorial Award, the ASEE Terman Award, and IEEE Circuits and Systems Society Education Award. She is a Fellow of the IEEE and ACM and a Golden Core member of IEEE Computer Society.
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Congratulations to Dr. Wolf on this outstanding achievement!