Dr. Eve Riskin received her BS degree in Electrical Engineering from M.I.T. and her graduate degrees in EE from Stanford. She was Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering at the University of Washington, where she was Faculty Director of their ADVANCE program for women faculty in STEM for 20 years, and founded their STARS program from students from limited-income backgrounds in Engineering and Computer Science. She is now at Stevens Institute of Technology where she is Dean of Undergraduate Education and Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering. At Stevens, she leads an office of 11 people who work to provide undergraduate students the best possible academic experience.
Dr. Riskin was awarded a National Science Foundation Young Investigator Award, a
Sloan Research Fellowship, the 2006 Hewlett-Packard Harriett B. Rigas Award, and a 2020 Presidential Mentoring Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics, and Engineering Mentoring. She is a
Fellow of the IEEE.
