Status Affiliate Faculty
Home Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Phone 244-9263
Email acsinger@illinois.edu
Address B420E Beckman Institute, 405 North Mathews Avenue
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Biography
Education
Ph.D., electrical engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1996
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Honors
2022: Best Student Paper Award (co-authored with PhD Advisee), POMA Student Paper Competition, Acoustical Society of America, Nashville Meeting, “Measuring and Exploiting the Locally Linear Mapping Between Relative Transfer Functions and Array deformations.”
2020: Microsoft AI for Accessibility Award
2020: Best Student Paper Presentation (co-authored with Post-Doctoral Advisee), 179th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America (“Dynamic range compression of signal mixtures”)
2019: Best Student Paper Award (co-authored with PhD Advisee), Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics, (“Motion-tolerant beamforming with deformable microphone arrays”)
2018: Amazon Alexa Innovation Fellow
2017: Best Student Paper Award (co-authored with PhD advisee), Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers
2016: Appointed as Technical University of Munich Institute for Advanced Study (TUM-IAS) Fellow, for visitors who "have a great international reputation as scientists or engineers and who have the intention to engage in an effective collaboration with researchers in the institute,"
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Research
Research Interests:
Signal processing
Communication systems
Machine learning algorithms and systems
Sonar/lidar/optical signal processing
Financial modeling and algorithms, optical communications
Wireline/wireless communications
Underwater acoustic communications sensing and localization
Decision making/aggregation systems
Augmented listening and audio processing
Robotics
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2019
- Massive Distributed Microphone Array Dataset Corey, R. M. (Creator), Skarha, M. D. (Creator), Singer, A. C. (Creator), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Oct 19 2019 DOI: 10.13012/B2IDB-6216881_V1
2018
- L. Franzoni, N. Gentile, A.H. Kachel, and A.C. Singer, "Planning Academic Maker Spaces: Models for Successful Experience-Based Learning Environments," Society for College and University Planning, (SCUP) Mid-Atlantic Regional Conference, 2018.
- Wearable Microphone Impulse Responses Corey, R. M. (Creator), Tsuda, N. (Creator), Singer, A. C. (Creator), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Nov 20 2018 DOI: 10.13012/B2IDB-1932389_V1
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2021
2020
- Disposable surgical masks best for being heard clearly when speaking, study finds
- Noted faculty entrepreneur Andrew Singer to lead OVCRI efforts in entrepreneurship and innovation
- The Grainger College of Engineering and Carle Health demonstrate working prototype of emergency ventilator for COVID-19 patients
- Researchers tackle augmented listening research one microphone at a time