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University of Colorado at Denver

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5.04/23/2026

Inspires growth and curiosity in every student.

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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.