2026 USM Board of Regents Faculty Award for Excellence in Scholarship or Research
Curtis Menyuk
Professor, Computer Science and Electrical Engineering
Dr. Curtis R. Menyuk has been a professor at the University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC) since 1986 and is currently in the Computer Science and Electrical Engineering Department. He has worked or consulted at large companies, startup companies, and for the US Department of Defense. He is a fellow of APS, Optica, SPIE, and the IEEE. He is a winner of several international awards, including the Humboldt Foundation Research Award. His research group at UMBC specializes in modeling photonic systems, and the equations and algorithms that his group has devised are widely used in the photonics community.