Biography
Taylor Barton is an Associate Professor with tenure in the Department of Electrical, Computer, and Energy Engineering at the University of Colorado Boulder. She has held the Lockheed Martin Faculty Fellowship for outstanding junior faculty since 2017. Prior to joining CU Boulder in 2016, she was an Assistant Professor at The University of Texas at Dallas for two years, and a post-doctoral associate in the Microsystems Technology Laboratories at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Prof. Barton received the Sc.D from MIT for her research in energy-efficient power amplifiers for wireless communications, and also holds Sc.B., M.Eng., and E.E. degrees from MIT’s EECS department. She received the Goodwin Medal for conspicuously effective teaching at MIT and the Analog Devices Outstanding Student Designer Award in 2011. Prof. Barton has received the AFSOR YIP and NSF CAREER awards.