Rate My Professor Stephen Gedney

Stephen Gedney serves as CU Distinguished Professor and Chair of the Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of Colorado Denver's College of Engineering, Design and Computing. He assumed this role in September 2014, following a distinguished career at the University of Kentucky where he was Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering from 1991 to 2014, including service as Assistant Professor from 1991 to 1996 and Associate Professor from 2001 to 2006. Additionally, he held the position of Interim Dean of the College of Engineering and Applied Science at CU Denver from June to December 2017. Gedney earned his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1991, an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from the same institution in 1987, and a B.Eng. with Honors in Electrical Engineering from McGill University in 1985. His experience includes visiting professorships at Hughes Research Laboratories in 1996 and 1997, Jet Propulsion Laboratory during summers of 1992 and 1993, and Alpha Omega Electromagnetics in 2004-2005. In 2021, he was appointed CU Distinguished Professor in recognition of his exceptional contributions as an educator, researcher, and visionary academic leader.

Gedney's main academic specialty is computational electromagnetics, with emphasis on high-order fast integral equation solution techniques, high-order time-dependent methods for Maxwell's equations, analysis and design of passive microwave circuits, packaging and antennas, underwater magnetic signature modeling of marine vessels, parallel computational methods in electromagnetics, and electromagnetic scattering by complex bodies and periodic structures. He leads the Electromagnetics, Plasmas and Computation Group, investigating ELF/VLF waves and related applications. Gedney is an IEEE Fellow since 2004 for contributions to computational electromagnetics, recipient of the NSF CAREER Award from 1996 to 2000, inaugural holder of the Don and Karen White Professorship at CU Denver since 2014, and former Reese Terry Endowed Professorship at the University of Kentucky from 2002 to 2014. He has received teaching honors such as Tau Beta Pi Electrical Engineering Outstanding Teacher of the Year in 2012-2013 and 1995-1996. Key publications include “Using Eccentricity to Locate Ionospheric Exit Points of Magnetospheric Whistler Mode Waves” (IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 2018), “A Broad-Band Huygens Surface Source Model for Near-Field to Near-Field Transformations” (IEEE Transactions on Electromagnetic Compatibility, 2017), and “Efficient high-order analysis of bowtie nanoantennas using the locally corrected Nyström method” (Optics Express, 2015). Gedney teaches courses in electromagnetics, computational electromagnetics, circuits, microwave circuits, and antennas.