he is also a professor of information at the university of michigan school of information and a professor of both electrical engineering and computer science in the college of engineering. from june 2006 to june 2008, he was the inaugural director of the office of cyberinfrastructure at the u.s. national science foundation. from july 2008 to june 2012 he was associate vice president for research cyberinfrastructure and chairman of the u of michigan information technology governance council. atkins was elected to the national academy of engineering in 2014.