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Wendi Heinzelman, Ph.D.
Discipline: Electrical & Computer Engineering The Center enables me to interact with other engineers, scientists, and medical doctors to develop technical solutions to real-life problems related to health and wellness. It is an exciting research area, as the impacts and potential payoffs are enormous. |
BiographyWendi B. Heinzelman is an assistant professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Rochester. She received a B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from Cornell University in 1995 and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT in 1997 and 2000 respectively. She has designed the LEACH (Low-Energy Adaptive Clustering Hierarchy) communication protocol for wireless microsensor networks that optimizes all levels of the communication stack for energy efficiency, facilitates scalability and enables computation versus communication tradeoffs. In addition, she has developed a system for using unequal error protection (UEP) with MPEG-4 compressed video sent over a wireless channel to obtain better user-perceived quality in the reconstructed video. Her current research interests lie in the area of fault-tolerant, low-power, ad-hoc wireless protocol architectures, scalable sensor networks, and multimedia communication. She is an elected member of the Design and Implementation of Signal Processing Systems (DISPS) Technical Committee of the Signal Processing Society and a member of Sigma Xi, the IEEE, and the ACM.
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