Eric Michielssen joins Applied & Computational Mathematics faculty

Michielssen joins Yale from the University of Michigan, where he served as the Louise Ganiard Johnson Professor of Engineering and Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. His research interests encompass all aspects of theoretical and applied computational electromagnetics, with a specific focus on developing fast frequency and time domain integral-equation-based techniques for analyzing electromagnetic phenomena.

His work has applications ranging from radar cross section analysis to circuit design, optics and photonics, and electromagnetic compatibility and interference. On these topics, he has authored or co-authored more than 230 journal papers and book chapters, as well as more than 400 papers in conference proceedings.  

In addition to his research, Michielssen held a number of senior academic leadership roles at the University of Michigan. He previously served as Associate Vice President for Advanced Research Computing, the founding Director of both the Institute for Computational Discovery and the Precision Health initiative, and the College of Engineering’s Associate Dean for Research.

Michielssen earned his master’s degree in electrical engineering, summa cum laude, from KU Leuven in Belgium, and completed his Ph.D. in electrical engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and has received numerous honors recognizing his contributions to computational electromagnetics, education, and professional service, including major awards from the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society and the Applied Computational Electromagnetics Society.