Sheila Hemami
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Sheila Susann Hemami is an American electrical engineer and entrepreneur, the Senior Director for Growth Initiatives at Triple Ring Technologies, a tech incubator and co-development company.[1] Formerly a professor at Cornell University and Northeastern University, her academic expertise is in signal processing.[2]
Hemami majored in electrical engineering at the University of Michigan, graduating in 1990. She then went to Stanford University for graduate study in electrical engineering, earned a master's degree in 1992, and completed her Ph.D. in 1994.[2] Her doctoral dissertation, Reconstruction of Compressed Images and Video for Lossy Packet Networks, was supervised by Robert M. Gray.[3]
After working as a researcher at Hewlett Packard Labs, she joined the Cornell University School of Electrical Engineering in 1995,[2] and was Kodak Term Assistant Professor there from 1996 to 1999.[4] Cornell promoted her to full professor in 2006, as the first woman in the university's School of Electrical Engineering to receive this level of promotion.[5] She chaired the IEEE Image and Multidimensional Signal Processing Technical Committee in 2006 and 2007, and was editor-in-chief of IEEE Transactions on Multimedia from 2008 to 2010. She moved to Northeastern University in Boston in 2013, as chair of its Department of Electrical Engineering.[2]
In 2016, Hemami moved to non-profit technology developer Draper Laboratory as Director of Strategic Technical Opportunities, changing her focus to global challenges involving the environment and sustainability.[6] She moved again to her present position at Triple Ring Technologies in 2021.[7]
