Elected a Fellow of the IEEE “for contributions to signal processing techniques for digital communication,” Dean Andrew C. Singer is a nationally recognized scholar, educational innovator, and technology entrepreneur.

Singer joined Stony Brook University from the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, where he served as the Fox Family Endowed Professor, Associate Dean for Innovation and Entrepreneurship in the Grainger College of Engineering, and Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering.

An active researcher, with interests in signal processing and communication systems, and audio and undersea acoustics, he has received over $35M in research funding and he authored five chapters in textbooks and more than 270 peer-reviewed journal and conference articles and 12 issued US patents.

Singer co-founded Intersymbol Communications, a semiconductor IC company for optical communications, acquired by Finisar Corporation (now II-VI). He also co-founded OceanComm, a provider of high-bandwidth underwater acoustic communications technology for subsea industries.