Meet Assistant Teaching Professor Erik Hodges
Hodges received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering from the University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA, in 2019 and the Ph.D degree in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Southern California in 2025. ÌýThroughout his graduate studies, he was a member of the NASA Cyclone Global Navigation Satellite System (CYGNSS) Science Team and the IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society.
Hodges' research centers around radar remote sensing of land surfaces. As part of his contributions to the NASA CYGNSS Science Team, he developed lidar-based electromagnetic scattering models for land, including a novel method for modeling mima mound surfaces.Ìý
He was also a leader of the Soil Moisture Sensing Controller And oPtimal Estimator (SoilSCAPE) Project at USC, which he used for model validation. He also lead an effort by the CYGNSS Science Team to combine multiple CYGNSS soil moisture products using a minimum variance estimator algorithm.
ÌýColorado has always been a dream place for me to live because I love skiing and hiking. I presented at the URSI National Radio Science Meeting conference, held in the CU engineering building every January, many times during my graduate studies and have always thought that CU would be an amazing place to work! When I interviewed here, I loved interacting with the faculty and students and instantly knew that this is where I wanted to land.
I am very excited to be joining Professor Eric Bogatin as a co-instructor for the electrical engineering capstone course this year! I've had the opportunity to see the incredible projects put together by the students both last year at my interviews and this year as a judge at capstone expo. I can't wait to be part of this course!"