Greg Heileman

Gregory (Greg) L. Heileman earned his BA from Wake Forest University in 1982, followed by an MS in Biomedical Engineering and Mathematics from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill in 1986, and a PhD in Computer Engineering from the University of Central Florida in 1989. In 1990, he joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at the University of New Mexico (UNM) in Albuquerque, where he has had a distinguished career. He received the UNM School of Engineering's Teaching Excellence Award in 1995 and the ECE Department Distinguished Teacher Award in 2000. Heileman held the Gardner Zemke Professorship from 2005 to 2008 and was honored with the Lawton-Ellis Award for excellence in teaching, research, and community involvement in both 2001 and 2009. Additionally, in 2009, he received the IEEE Albuquerque Section Outstanding Educator Award. He served as Associate Chair of the ECE Department from 2005 to 2011 and was the Vice Provost for Teaching, Learning, and Innovation at UNM from 2011 to 2017. Currently, he is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Associate Vice Provost for Academic Administration at the University of Arizona. Heileman is also the author of the textbook Data Structures, Algorithms, and Object-Oriented Programming, published by McGraw-Hill in 1996.