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Andrew Singer
    University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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Bio:Andrew C. Singer received the S.B. S.M. and Ph.D. degrees all in electrical engineering and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1990 1992 and 1996 respectively. Since 1998 he has been on the faculty of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign where he is currently a Professor in the ECE department a Research Professor in the Coordinated Science Laboratory and a Willett Faculty Scholar. During the academic year 1996 he was a Postdoctoral Research Affiliate in the Research Laboratory of Electronics at MIT. From 1996 to 1998 he was a Research Scientist at Sanders A Lockheed Martin Company in Manchester New Hampshire where he designed algorithms architectures and systems for a variety of DOD applications. His research spans statistical signal processing and communication systems as well as information theory and machine learning. He was a Hughes Aircraft Masters Fellow and was the recipient of the Harold L. Hazen Memorial Award for excellence in teaching in 1991. In 2000 he received the National Science Foundation CAREER Award in 2001 he received the Xerox Faculty Research Award and in 2002 was named a Willett Faculty Scholar. Dr. Singer is a member of the MIT Educational Council and of Eta Kappa Nu and Tau Beta Pi.

In 2005 Dr. Singer was appointed as the Director of the Technology Entrepreneur Center (TEC) in the College of Engineering. In 2000 he also co-founded (with Naresh Shanbhag begin_of_the_skype_highlighting     end_of_the_skype_highlighting) Intersymbol Communications Inc. a venture-funded fabless semiconductor IC company based in Champaign Illinois which brought an MLSE-based electronic dispersion compensation chip-set to the optical market. In 2007 Intersymbol Communications Inc. was acquired by Finisar Corporation a publicly traded company (NASDAQ: FNSR).

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