Nirupama Bulusu: Biographical Sketch

Dr. Nirupama Bulusu is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science and a member of the Intel Systems and Networking Laboratory at Portland State University. At PSU, she leads an active research group in sensor networks, with a focus on environmental and urban sensing applications. With her colleagues, she developed one of the first hybrid sensing architectures for a high-rate sampling application, cane-toad monitoring. Besides authoring numerous highly cited publications on sensor networks, she was also the principal editor for the book, "Wireless Sensor Networks: A Systems Perspective", published by Artech House in August 2005.

She received her Ph.D from UCLA in 2002 under the supervision of Professors Deborah Estrin and John Heidemann, her M.S from USC in 2000, and her B.Tech from IIT Madras in 1997, all in Computer Science. She is a recipient of the NSF CAREER award, the Institute Merit Prize from IIT Madras, the Provost's PSU Foundation Faculty Development Award from Portland State University and a co-recipient of the UNSW GoldStar Award from the University of New South Wales.

Prior to joining PSU, Dr. Bulusu held professional appointments at the Oregon Health and Sciences University , National ICT Australia Limited, Sun Microsystems, Palo Alto Research Center, and the University of Southern California. She serves on the editorial board of Elsevier Ad Hoc Networks journal, and on the organizing and program committees of several sensor networks workshops including ACM SenSys, EWSN, IPSN, DCOSS and IEEE EmNetS, as a Computing Research Association (CRA) Distributed Mentor to female undergraduates, and as a Grand Awards Judge at the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair. She is a member of the Association of Computing Machinery, Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, American Geophysical Union and the Sigma Xi honor society.