Andrew C. Singer
110 Computer and Systems Research Laboratory
1308 W. Main St., Urbana, IL, 61801
Tel: 217-244-9263
Fax: 217-244-1642
Email: acsinger(at)illinois(dot)edu
Secretary: Terri Macfarlane Hovde

Andrew C. Singer received the S.B., S.M. and Ph.D. degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, all in electrical engineering and computer science, in 1990, 1992 and 1996, respectively.

From 1996 to 1998, he was a Research Scientist at Sanders, A Lockheed Martin Company, in Manchester, NH. Since 1998, he has been on the faculty at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, where he is currently a Willet Faculty Scholar and Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. He is also a Research Professor, affiliated with the Signal Processing and Communications Groups in the Coordinated Science Laboratory. He is also the Director of the Technology Entrepreneur Center in the College of Engineering. In 2000, he co-founded Intersymbol Communications, Inc (acquired by Finisar (FNSR) in 2007), a communications IC company specializing in integrated circuits for the optical communications industry.

His current research interests include statistical signal processing; wireless and underwater acoustic communications; LIDAR signal processing; adaptive filtering and machine learning; universal prediction, data compression, and universal methods; nonlinear dynamics and solitons; and financial modeling.  Some publications are listed here. A brief bio sketch is listed here.

Courses taught: ECE410 Digital Signal Processing,  ECE 551 Advanced Digital Signal Processing.   ECE 413 Probability with Engineering Applications ,   ECE 534 Random Processes.   ECE 465 Optical Communications Systems.  

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