Michielssen is the Louise Ganiard Johnson Professor of Engineering and professor of electrical engineering and computer science in the University of Michigan College of Engineering. He obtained his PhD in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1992 and joined the University of Michigan in 2005. Michielssen was associate vice president for Advanced Research Computing, within the university’s Office of Research, from 2013 to 2018; he coordinated research initiatives in computational and data science across U-M’s 19 schools and colleges, and provided high-performance and big data computing and consulting services. Michielssen’s research interests include all aspects of theoretical and applied computational electromagnetics, as well as development of fast frequency and time-domain integral equation-based techniques for analyzing electromagnetic phenomena.