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WIT Lecture with Monica Bugallo, Associate Professor of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Stony Brook University and faculty director of the Women In Science and Engineering (WISE) Honors program
As per usual, talk will be followed by networking lunch in R2.
About Monica Bugallo
Mónica F. Bugallo received her B.S., M.S, and Ph. D. degrees in computer science and engineering from the University of A Coruña, Spain, in 1996, 1999, and 2001, respectively.
At the University of A Coruña she received the Award of Best Student and Best Ph.D. Dissertation. From 1998 to 2001 she was with the Department of Electronics and Systems at the same university, where she worked as research associate and was investigating interference cancellation applied to multiuser communication systems.
In 2002, she joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Stony Brook University where she is currently an Associate Professor. In 2016, she was also appointed the inaugural faculty director of the Women In Science and Engineering (WISE) Honors program.
Her research interests are in the field of statistical signal processing, with emphasis on the theory of Monte Carlo methods and its application to different disciplines including biomedicine, sensor networks, and finance. She is also committed to STEM education and has initiated several successful programs with the purpose of engaging students at all academic stages in the excitement of engineering and research, with focus on underrepresented groups. She has authored and coauthored two book chapters and more than 150 journal papers and refereed conference articles.
Mónica will present an overview of her career and the Women In Science and Engineering (WISE) Honors program at Stony Brook University.