Lalita Udpa received her Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Colorado State University. There after she served for over a decade in the department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Iowa State University. She is currently a University Distinguished Professor in the department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Michigan State University. Dr. Udpa works primarily in the broad areas of Nondestructive Evaluation, Signal Processing and Analysis. Her research interests include various aspects of NDE such as development of computational models and its use in new sensor design, signal and image processing, data fusion, and inverse problem solutions. She has been recognized by several awards; Distinguished Scholarship award at Michigan State University, the ASNT Sustained Research Excellence Award and the ASNT award for Advancement of Women in NDT. Dr. Udpa is a Fellow of the IEEE and a Fellow of the American Society of Nondestructive Testing and Indian Society of Nondestructive Testing. She served as associate technical editor of Research Techniques in NDE and as an editor of IEEE Transactions on Magnetics.