Faculty

Michael Heilemann received a B.S. in Physics from Canisius College in 2013, and an M.S and Ph.D in Electrical Engineering from the University of Rochester in 2015 and 2018 respectively. He was named the Harman Scholar by the Audio Engineering Society (AES) Educational Foundation in 2017 and joined the faculty of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) as an assistant professor the following year. He was promoted to Associate Professor in 2024. His research is focused on signal processing for vibration and acoustics, and is funded by the National Science Foundation, the Office of Naval Research, the New York State Center for Excellence in Data Science, and the New York State Center for Emerging and Innovative Sciences. He received the best technical paper award at the 153^rd Convention of the AES in 2022, and the ECE department awards for outstanding teaching in 2023 and 2024. He is a member of the AES, ASA, and IEEE, and has been awarded eight patents.