{{Short description | President of University College Dublin}} {{Use dmy dates|date=January 2022}} {{Use Hiberno-English|date=January 2022}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Orla Feely | image = Orla Feely, Jan 2026 (cropped).jpg | caption = Feely in 2026 | office = 10th President of University College Dublin | term_start = 1 May 2023 | term_end = | predecessor = Mark Rogers (acting) | successor = | birth_date = {{birth year and age|1966}} | birth_place = Dublin, Ireland | death_date = | death_place = | education = University College Dublin (BEng, MEng)<br>University of California, Berkeley (MS, PhD) | module = {{Infobox scientist | embed = yes | fields = Electronic engineering | workplaces = University College Dublin | thesis_title = An Analytical Study of the Nonlinear Dynamics of Sigma Delta Analog-to-Digital Conversion | thesis_url = https://www.proquest.com/docview/303996919/ | thesis_year = 1992 | doctoral_advisor = Leon O. Chua}} }} '''Orla Feely''' is an Irish academic and professor of electronic engineering. As of 2024, she is the president of University College Dublin (UCD), having previously served as Vice-President for Research, Innovation and Impact. She is also the first Irish woman elected a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.
==Biography==
Orla Feely was born in Dublin to Ita and Frank Feely. Her father was the city manager for Dublin Corporation.<ref name="The Irish Times">{{cite news | title=Single minded awards | newspaper=The Irish Times | date=2020-03-21 | url=https://www.irishtimes.com/news/single-minded-awards-1.21687 | access-date=2020-05-06}}</ref> She attended Our Lady's School, Terenure.<ref>https://olschool.ie/past-pupil-success/</ref> She got her undergraduate degree in Electronic Engineering from University College, Dublin in 1986 before going to attend the University of California, Berkeley in California where she completed her Masters and PhD. While there she won the DJ Sakrison Memorial Prize. She returned to Ireland to work as a lecturer in UCD's Engineering department in 1992 since which time she has been a full professor with the university and is Vice-President for Research, Innovation and Impact.<ref name="University College Dublin 1986">{{cite web | title=Orla Feely Profile | website=University College Dublin | date=1986-01-01 | url=https://people.ucd.ie/orla.feely/about | access-date=2020-05-06}}</ref><ref name="Irish Times">{{cite news | title=UCD generates €1.3 billion a year, report says | newspaper=The Irish Times | date=2020-05-05 | url=https://www.irishtimes.com/news/education/ucd-generates-1-3-billion-a-year-report-says-1.2227547 | access-date=2020-05-06}}</ref><ref name="Silicon Republic 2020">{{cite web | title=All 'Orla Feely' news | website=Silicon Republic | date=2020-02-18 | url=https://www.siliconrepublic.com/topics/orla-feely | access-date=2020-05-06}}</ref> On 21 February 2023, she was appointed President of UCD, her term beginning on 1 May 2023.<ref name="The Irish Independent">{{cite web | title=UCD announces Professor Orla Feely as its next president | website=The Irish Independent| date=2023-02-21 | url=https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/education/ucd-announces-professor-orla-feely-as-its-next-president-42352185.html | access-date=2023-02-21}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=2023-06-28 |title=UCD's first female president: 'I kind of barged on through, not thinking that doors had ever even been closed' – The Irish Times |newspaper=The Irish Times |url=https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/education/2023/05/01/ucds-first-female-president-i-kind-of-barged-on-through-not-thinking-that-doors-had-ever-even-been-closed/ |access-date=2023-06-28 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230628143507/https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/education/2023/05/01/ucds-first-female-president-i-kind-of-barged-on-through-not-thinking-that-doors-had-ever-even-been-closed/ |archive-date=28 June 2023 }}</ref>
Feely is the first Irish woman elected a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.<ref name="Irish Times 2020">{{cite news | title=Funding doubts causing university 'brain drain' - RIA president | newspaper=The Irish Times | date=2020-05-05 | url=https://www.irishtimes.com/news/education/funding-doubts-causing-university-brain-drain-ria-president-1.2230946 | access-date=2020-05-06}}</ref> She is a member of the Royal Irish Academy and a fellow of Engineers Ireland, of which she was president from 2021 to 2022, and the Irish Academy of Engineering.<ref name="University College Dublin 1986"/> She was Vice-President for Resources and treasurer of the Conference of European Schools of Advanced Engineering Education and Research (CESAER) as well as director of Young Scientist and Technology Exhibition.<ref name="The Irish Times 2020">{{cite news | title=Women in Leadership: pointing the way to the top | newspaper=The Irish Times | date=2020-05-05 | url=https://www.irishtimes.com/business/work/women-in-leadership-pointing-the-way-to-the-top-1.2558734 | access-date=2020-05-06}}</ref><ref name="iCRAG">{{cite web | title=Governance Committee - Prof. Orla Feely | website=iCRAG | url=https://www.icrag-centre.org/people/advisory-committees/governancecommittee/proforlafeely.html | access-date=2020-05-06}}</ref>
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