Charlie Mydlarz is a research associate professor and acoustician-engineer with a decade of experience designing, building, and scaling IoT sensor networks that monitor urban environments, machine health, and acoustics. He led the development and deployment of SONYC and FloodNet—multi-million dollar, city-integrated sensor programs that combine custom low-power hardware, MEMS microphone arrays, and edge/cloud data pipelines used by city agencies and weather services. Comfortable from SMT PCB spin-up to bare-metal Linux, Kubernetes, and signal-processing pipelines in Python and C/C++, he blends hands-on engineering with grant-winning research and productization. He has mentored 50+ students, run cross-disciplinary teams through commercialization and DFM to 500-device production runs, and even managed sensor fabrication overseas for high-consistency MEMS modules. Notably, his work ties acoustic ecology and urban sensing to actionable municipal operations, turning environmental data into real-time emergency and policy tools.
10 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Acoustics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Acoustics at The University of Salford
A2 Level Physics Mathematics Computing and Media Studies, A2 Level Physics Mathematics Computing and Media Studies at Peter Symonds College
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