Electrical, Computer & Energy Engineering Department News - December 2022

Phillip De Leon (MElEngr'92, PhD'95) previously served as associate vice president for research and chief science officer at New Mexico State University. 

Ahmad Hoorfar (MElEngr'78, PhD'84) has been named an IEEE fellow "for contributions to sensing and imaging in stratified media and optimization in electromagnetics." Hoorfar is a professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Villanova University. 

The new track provides unique and integrated education in AI with domain knowledge in signal processing and/or communications. 

Assistant Professor Taylor Barton has received the 2023 Outstanding Young Engineer Award of the IEEE Microwave Theory and Technology Society. She was honored “for Outstanding Early Career Achievements in High-Efficiency and Reconfigurable Power Amplifiers,” and will be recognized at the International Microwave Symposium in June. 

• Rumaih Al-Rumaih (PhDElEngr’95) was appointed as Saudi Arabia’s deputy minister of transport and logistic services. Rumaih was also assigned by royal decree as president of the Public Transport Authority, which oversees the kingdom’s land, railway and maritime transport.
• Musician and engineer Dafna Margalit (ElCompEngr’22) has been playing her original music for numerous years in and around the Boulder scene. During her time at Fairview High School, she would take any opportunity to perform, including school events, the competitive BVSD Battle of the Bands JamFest and eTown Hall’s 2016 Handmade Song Contest. Since then, Dafna has worked to open and headline shows at the Boulder Theatre, Fox Theatre and Larimer Lounge in Denver. Her bedroom-pop sound has racked up millions of streams across platforms since her first release in 2019. In addition to playing music, Dafna works as a software engineer at Rival Games.

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