honors and awards
- Recipient of the 2019 IEEE Nuclear Plasma and Sciences Society (NPSS) Radiation Effects Early Achievement Award for contributions radiation effects research in high-speed analog and mixed-signal electronics and student mentorship in the radiation effects community.
- Best student poster award (2nd place), ASEE Southeastern Section Annual Conference, 2018, “The Response of Fuzzy Electronics to Ionizing Radiation,” S. Singh, T. D. Loveless.
- Best student poster award (2nd place), 52nd Annual Conference of the National Collegiate Honors Council (NCHC), 2017, “Efficacy of Fuzzy Electronics in Space,” S. Singh, T. D. Loveless.
- Named UC Foundation Assistant Professor in recognition of distinguished service as faculty member at UTC, Apr. 2017.
- Recipient of 2016 GigTank365 Summer Fellowship (UTChattSat), CO.LAB, Chattanooga, TN, May-July 2016.
- STEM Category Winner in Faculty Elevator Speech Competition, “Rocket Scientist, Engineer, Educator,” UTC’s Research Dialogues, Apr. 2016.
- Outstanding Researcher Award, Electrical Engineering, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, 2015-2016, 2016-2017, 2020-2021.
- Received highest ranking of “Exceeds Expectations” seven years in a row for service, teaching, and research activities at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, 2014-2015, 2015-2016, 2016-2017, 2017-2018, 2018-2019, 2019-2020, and 2020-2021.
- Senior Member, IEEE, June 2015.
- Best student poster award, 37th Annual Government Microcircuit Applications & Critical Technology Conference (GOMACTech), 2012, “Single-Event Hardening Techniques for CMOS Operational Amplifier Design,” Raymond W. Blaine, Nicholas M. Atkinson, Jeffrey S. Kauppila, Sarah E. Armstrong, T. Daniel Loveless, W. Timothy Holman, and Lloyd W. Massengill.
- Best poster award, 2011 International Reliability Physics Symposium (IRPS), “Neutron and Alpha Particle Induced Soft-Error Rates for Flip Flops at a 40 nm Technology Node,” Srikanth Jagannathan, T. D. Loveless, T. Reece, B. L. Bhuva, S-J. Wen, R. Wong, L. W. Massengill.
- Best paper award, 35th Annual Government Microcircuit Applications & Critical Technology Conference (GOMACTech), 2010, “Recent Advances in Radiation-Hardened-by-Design Analog and Mixed-Signal Circuits,” W.T. Holman, L.W. Massengill, B.L. Bhuva, A.F. Witulski, and T.D. Loveless.
- Recipient of the 2008 IEEE Nuclear Plasma and Sciences Society (NPSS) Graduate Scholarship Award for contributions to the fields of Nuclear and Plasma Sciences, March 2008.