Electrical, Computer & Energy Engineering Department News - CU Boulder 2024

As part of a major federal endeavor to combat climate change, CU Boulder is advancing marine carbon dioxide removal techniques to cut harmful greenhouse gasses by providing new methods for monitoring verification and reporting.

Assistant Professor Josh Combes of the Department of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering will use a prestigious NSF CAREER Award to further quantum research and foster the next generation of quantum-aware engineers across disciplines.

CU Boulder researchers will test general relativity atop Mt. Blue Sky and advance geodesy through the use of quantum sensors, some of the most precise in the world. 

Two ECEE faculty members, Eric Keller and Tamara Lehman, are part of a research group leading a major military-oriented project for 5G wireless security.

Associate Professor Taylor Barton earned the prestigious Outstanding Young Engineer award from the IEEE Microwave Theory and Technology Society (MTT-S), one of the leading technical professional societies promoting the advancement of microwave theory and its applications, including RF, microwave, millimeter-wave and terahertz technologies. 

Associate Professor Emiliano Dall’Anese and his research group examined online feedback optimization for a paper that recently won the prestigious ‘Best Paper Award’ in the IEEE journal Transactions on Control of Network Systems. 

Assistant Professor Joe Izraelevitz of the Department of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering will use a prestigious NSF CAREER to develop extensions to programming languages that would allow programmers to explicitly control where data is stored.

Dragan Maksimovic, Charles V. Schelke Endowed Professor in ECEE, was named Distinguished Professor, a title signifying the highest honor awarded to faculty across the CU system’s four campuses.

Researcher's pioneering innovations have led to wide-ranging application of optical frequency combs to ultrafast lasers, optical clocks, spectroscopy, microwave synthesis, and astronomy.

The Department of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering is welcoming Emily Jensen community. Jensen is joining as an assistant professor in the systems & controls research area, and will begin in spring 2024. Welcome, Emily! 

Tamara Silbergleit Lehman, an assistant professor of computer engineering, who started as a community college student herself hosted an associates student for a research experiences as part of CU SPUR this summer.

PhD student Jonathan Musgrave earned a 2023 National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship for his promising research in laser physics and nonlinear photonics.

Electrical engineering PhD student Fiona Majeau has earned a competitive 2023 Department of Energy Computational Science Graduate Fellowship for her promising research in electric grid modeling and simulation.