Professional Service

• “Emerging Techniques and Applications for FDTD Computational Modeling of Planetary Electromagnetic Wave Propagation in the ULF, ELF, and VLF bands,” North American Radio Science Meeting, Ottawa, Canada. Special Session Organizer. 07/2007 - 07/2007
• “Advances in Computational Simulations for Biophotonics,” IEEE AP-S International Symposium and USNC/URSI Radio Science Meeting, San Diego, CA. Special Session Organizer. 07/2008 - 07/2008
• IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society. New Technology Directions Committee Member. 07/2008 - 06/2010
• “Advances in Computational Biophotonics,” USNC/URSI National Radio Science Meeting, Boulder, CO, Jan. 2010. Special Session Organizer. 06/2009 - 01/2010
• “Advances in Geophysical Electromagnetics, including Lightning, Space Weather, and Satellite Observations,” ICEAA, Sydney, Australia. Special Session Organizer. 09/2010 - 09/2010
• “Computational Biophotonics and Nano-Photonics,” USNC/URSI National Radio Science Meeting, Boulder, CO, Jan. 2011. Special Session Organizer. 06/2010 - 01/2011
• IEEE AP-S International Symposium and USNC/URSI Radio Science Meeting, Spokane, WA, July 2011. Technical Program Committee Member. 01/2011 - 03/2011
• IEEE Albuquerque, NM Section. Women in Engineering Coordinator. 10/2008 - 08/2011
• “Propagation Models for VLF to SHF EM Waves,” ICEAA, Torino, Italy, Sept. 2011. Special Session Organizer. 01/2011 - 09/2011
• “Computational Biophotonics and Nano-Photonics,” USNC/URSI National Radio Science Meeting, Boulder, CO, Jan. 2012. Special Session Organizer. 06/2011 - 01/2012
• “Bioelectromagnetics,” ICEAA, Cape Town, South Africa, Sept. 2012. Special Session Organizer. 01/2012 - 03/2012
• IEEE AP-S International Symposium and USNC/URSI Radio Science Meeting, Chicago, IL, July 2012. Role: Session Chair. "Advances in FDTD Methods and Analysis". 07/2012 - 07/2012
• IEEE AP-S International Symposium and USNC/URSI Radio Science Meeting, Chicago, IL, July 2012. Chair, Publicity. 07/2011 - 07/2012
• IEEE AP-S International Symposium and USNC/URSI Radio Science Meeting, Chicago, IL, July 2012. Chair, Special Sessions Committee. 07/2011 - 07/2012
• IEEE AP-S International Symposium and USNC/URSI Radio Science Meeting, Chicago, IL, July 2012. Judge, Student Paper Competition. 07/2012 - 07/2012
• IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society. Education Committee Member. 06/2009 - 08/2012
• USNC/URSI National Radio Science Meeting, Boulder, CO, January 2013. Role: Sessioni Chair. "Terahertz and Photonic Devices, Circuits, and Applications". 01/2013 - 01/2013
• “Biophotonics,” USNC/URSI National Radio Science Meeting, Boulder, CO, Jan. 2013. Special Session Organizer. 06/2012 - 01/2013
• “Terahertz and Photonic Devices, Circuits, and Applications” . USNC/URSI National Radio Science Meeting, Boulder, CO. Session Chair. 01/2013 - 01/2013
• IEEE AP-S International Symposium and USNC/URSI Radio Science Meeting, Orlando, FL, July 2013. Technical Program Committee Member. 01/2013 - 03/2013
• IEEE AP-S International Symposium and USNC/URSI Radio Science Meeting, Orlando, FL, July 2013. Role: Session Chair. "Antenna Analysis and Propagation in Complex Media". 07/2013 - 07/2013
• USNC/URSI Commission B. Secretary. 01/2010 - 01/2014
• “Biophotonics,” USNC/URSI National Radio Science Meeting, Boulder, CO, Jan. 2014. Special Session Organizer. 06/2013 - 01/2014
• 9th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP 2015). Technical Program Committee Member. 10/2014 - 02/2015
• IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation. Associate Editor (Managed ~225 manuscripts). 08/2010 - 05/2014
• NSF Review Panel. Geospace Post-Doc. 04/2014 - 05/2014
• IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society. New Technology Directions Committee Member. 07/2013 - 07/2015
• 2015 NASA Living with a Star Institute Working Group . Member (invited as one of 20 international researchers to the inaugural group). 01/2015 - 12/2015
• IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society. Member of the Constitution and Bylaws Committee. 01/2015 - 12/2015
• United States National Committee (USNC) for the Union of Radio Science International (URSI) . Judge, Student Paper Competition. 10/2015 - 01/2016
• “Uncertainty Quantification in Computational Electromagnetics and Engineering Design Automation,” USNC/URSI National Radio Science Meeting, Boulder, CO. Special Session Organizer. 07/2015 - 01/2016
• National Science Foundation. Review Panel for NSF. 01/2016 - 02/2016
• IEEE AP-S International Symposium and USNC/URSI Radio Science Meeting, Fajardo, Puerto Rico. Technical Program Committee Member. 01/2016 - 06/2016
• “Advanced Modeling of Electromagnetic Propagation”. Role: Special Session Organizer. USNC/URSI National Radio Science Meeting, Boulder, CO, January 2017. 08/2016 - 01/2017
• IEEE Antennas and Propagation. Chair of the Constitution and Bylaws Committee. 01/2016 - 12/2017
• United States National Committee (USNC) for the Union of Radio Science International (URSI) (a committee of the National Academy of Sciences) . Vice-Chair of Commission B. 01/2015 - 12/2017
• United States National Committee (USNC) for the Union of Radio Science International (URSI) (a committee of the National Academy of Sciences) . Member at Large (one of six elected nationally). 01/2015 - 12/2017
• IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society. Administration Committee Member (one of four elected internationally). 01/2015 - 12/2017
• IEEE AP-S International Symposium and USNC/URSI Radio Science Meeting, San Diego, CA. Chair of Publicity. 08/2016 - 07/2017
• IEEE AP-S International Symposium and USNC/URSI Radio Science Meeting, Boston, MA. AP-S / URSI Liaison. 08/2017 - 07/2018
• USNC/URSI National Radio Science Meeting, Boulder, CO. Judge, Student Paper Competition. 10/2017 - 01/2018
• IEEE AP-S International Symposium and USNC/URSI National Radio Science Meeting. Special Session Proposer and Organizer: “Advanced FVTD and DGTD Methods,” Atlanta, GA. 10/2018 - 07/2019
• IEEE. Guest Editor, Special Section dedicated to the 2019 IEEE AP-S International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation in the 2019 volume of the IEEE Journal on Multiscale and Multiphysics Computational Techniques (IEEE J-MMCT). 08/2019 - 12/2019
• United States National Committee (USNC) for the Union of Radio Science International (URSI) (a committee of the National Academy of Sciences). Chair of Commission B. 01/2018 - 12/2020
• IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society. Track Editor (one of five internationally, April 2016 – July 2016, and then one of seven internationally, IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation. 04/2016 - 10/2022
• IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society. General Chair, IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation and USNC-URSI Radio Science Meeting, ~1500-1800 attendees, held July 2023. 06/2019 - 07/2023
• United States National Committee (USNC) for the International Union of Radio Science (URSI), a committee of the National Academy of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine. Chair . 01/2024 - present
• United States National Committee (USNC) for the Union of Radio Science International (URSI) at the National Academy of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine. Secretary and Chair-Elect. 01/01/2022 - 12/31/2023
• IEEE AP-S International Symposium and USNC-URSI Radio Science Meeting, Denver, CO. Special Session Organizer: “In Memory of Prof. Allen Taflove” . 10/20/2021 - 07/11/2022

Honors & Awards

• Summer Research Grant, Northwestern University Undergraduate Research Grants Committee . 06/2001
• Undergraduate research assistantship funded by Intel Corporation . 09/2001
• German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) Undergraduate Award . 06/2002
• IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society International Symposium Student Paper Contest Finalist. 06/2003
• Northwestern University McCormick School of Engineering Murphy First-Year Graduate Fellowship . 09/2003
• IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society Graduate Research Award. 07/2004
• Graduate research assistantship funded by Intel Corporation. 09/2004
• National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship . 09/2005
• IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society Graduate Fellowship . 06/2006
• Northwestern University McCormick School of Engineering Richter Dissertation-Year Fellowship (declined due to prior NSF Graduate Fellowship) . 09/2006
• Best Ph.D. Dissertation Award, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department, Northwestern University . 06/2007
• National Science Foundation Career Award. 09/2010
• Air Force Summer Faculty Fellowship. 06/2011
• UNM School of Engineering Junior Faculty Teaching Excellence Award. 06/2011
• UNM ECE Distinguished Researcher Award. 06/2011
• IEEE-Albuquerque Outstanding Engineering Educator Award. 06/2011
• Donald G. Dudley, Jr. Undergraduate Teaching Award of the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society. 07/2012
• Elevated to Senior Member of IEEEE. 12/2012
• 2015 NASA Living with a Star Institute Working Group on Geomagnetically-Induced Currents (invited as one of 20 international researchers to the inaugural group). NASA, 01/2015
• Fall Semester Top 15% Student Teaching Evaluations Award (for ECE 5340/6340: Numerical Techniques in Electromagnetics). University of Utah College of Engineering, 05/2017
• 2017 International Union of Radio Science (URSI) Santimay Basu Medal (one of eight different awards given out by URSI every three years) with the following citation: “For advancing three-dimensional finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) solutions of electromagnetic wave propagation within the global Earth-ionosphere waveguide applied to space weather, remote-sensing, and very low frequency propagation.”. 08/2017
• 2020 IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society Lot Shafai Mid-Career Distinguished Achievement Award. 07/08/2020
• Outstanding Research Award. Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, University of Utah, 08/2020
• Fall Semester Top 15% Student Teaching Evaluations Award (for ECE 3300: Introduction to Electromagnetics). University of Utah College of Engineering, 01/2021
• 2022 Teacher of the Year Award, as voted on by the graduating seniors in the ECE Dept. at the University of Utah. 05/2022
• 2022 Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) Utah Pathways to STEM (UPSTEM) Faculty Fellow . 09/2022
• 2022 NASA/NSF GIC Innovation Lab Mentor (one of five invited nationally). 11/2022
• 2024 Electrical and Computer Engineering Department Outstanding Service Award, University of Utah. 08/2024

Internal Service

• Judge, Bench to Bedside. 04/2024 - 04/2024. University service.
• Executive Committee Member, Academic Senate. 01/2024 - 05/2024. University service.
• Chair, Department RPT Review Subcommittee (a tenure decision), . 08/2022 - 10/2022. Department service.
• Associate Chair, ECE Department. 07/2022 - present. Department service.
• Steward of the Amateur Radio Station and Call Sign (KK7EKS) for the University of Utah Amateur Radio Club. 07/2022 - present. Department service.
• Member, Academic Senate. 07/2022 - 06/2025. University service.
• Chair / Member, Department RPT Review Subcommittee (a tenure and a mid-tenure review). 08/23/2021 - 10/15/2021. Department service.
• Strategic and Research Development Committee. Member, 08/2020 - 05/2021. Department service.
• Awards and Faculty Development Committee. Member, 08/2020 - 05/2021. Department service.
• Department RPT Review Subcommittee (mid-tenure review). Chair, 08/2020 - 10/2020. Department service.
• Senior exit interviews. 05/2019 - 05/2019. Department service.
• Faculty Search Committee. Member, 08/2017 - 05/2018. Department service.
• Faculty Search Committee Member. 08/2016 - 05/2017. Department service.
• Scholarships Committee Member. 01/2016 - 05/2019. College service.
• Graduate seminar. 10/2015 - 10/2015. Department service.
• Sophomore seminar presentation. 03/2015 - 03/2015. Department service.
• Sophomore seminar presentation. 04/2014 - 04/2014. Department service.
• ECE grad/undergrad student Poster Day. Judge, 10/2013 - 10/2013. Department service.
• Marketing and Outreach Committee. Member, 08/2013 - 06/2019. Department service.
• Faculty Search Committee. Member, 08/2013 - 06/2014. Department service.
• Fellowships Office. Director, 07/2013 - 08/2016. College service.
• Strategic Planning Committee. Acting Chair, 07/2013 - 05/2014. Department service.
• Senior exit interviews . 05/2013 - 05/2013. Department service.
• Senior design. Judge, 05/2013 - 05/2013. Department service.
• Grand Challenge Scholars Program. Program Director, 10/2012 - 05/2014. College service.
• Faculty Search Committee. Member, 08/2012 - 06/2013. Department service.
• Women's Advisory Committee in Engineering. Faculty Mentor, 08/01/2012 - 06/2019. College service.
• Strategic Planning Committee. Member, 08/01/2012 - 06/2013. Department service.

Affiliations

• U.S. National Committee for URSI (USNC-URSI), Member, 06/2007 - present
• IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society (AP-S), Senior Member, 06/2003 - present
• Electrical Engineering Honor Society (Eta Kappa Nu), Member, 06/2003 - present

Outreach

• Bingham High School, West Jordan, UT, Presentation and Jello Optics Hands-On Activities in Four Physics Classes, May 18, 2023. 05/18/2023 - 05/18/2023