Andrew Singer received the S.B., S.M., and Ph.D. degrees, all in electrical engineering and computer science, from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Before joining the College of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Stony Brook University as Dean, he was affiliated with the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign from 1998 until 2023. On the faculty of its Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Singer held the Fox Family Endowed Professorship and served as Associate Dean for Innovation and Entrepreneurship in the Grainger College of Engineering.
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.
In 2000, he co-founded Intersymbol Communications, Inc., a fabless semiconductor IC company, based in Champaign, Illinois, which built digital signal processing-enhanced receivers for 10Gb/s optical communications. In 2007, Intersymbol Communications, Inc. was acquired by Finisar Corporation. In 2014, he co-founded OceanComm, a provider of ultra high-bandwidth underwater acoustic modem technology for subsea industries.
He received the National Science Foundation CAREER Award in 2000; in 2001 he received the Xerox Faculty Research Award, and in 2002 he was named a Willett Faculty Scholar. From 2005-2017, he served as Director of the Technology Entrepreneur Center (TEC) in the Grainger College of Engineering, which is now part of the office of Innovation and Entrepreneurship in the College of Engineering, for which he served as Associate Dean. In 2006 he received the IEEE Journal of Solid State Circuits Best Paper Award for the paper entitled “An MLSE Receiver for Electronic Dispersion Compensation of OC-192 Fiber Links.” In 2008, he received the IEEE Signal Processing Magazine Award for the paper entitled “Turbo Equalization.” In 2009, he was elected Fellow of the IEEE “for contributions to signal processing techniques for digital communication,” and in 2014, he was named as a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Signal Processing Society.
In 2023, Prof. Singer joined Stony Brook University as Dean of the College of Engineering and Applied Science, where he is a Professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department. He also holds courtesy appointments in the School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences and in the Institute for Advanced Computational Science.
Dean Singer enjoys many forms of outdoor sports, including competing in triathlons and marathons. He has competed at all distances from sprint and olympic distance triathlons to ultra-marathons and the Ironman triathlon.