Urbashi Mitra received the B.S. and the M.S. degrees from the University of California at Berkeley and her Ph.D. from Princeton University.    Dr. Mitra is currently the Gordon S. Marshall Professor in Engineering at the University of Southern California with appointments in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. Dr. Mitra is a Fellow of the IEEE and a Foreign member of Academia Europaea.  She is a co-principal investigator of the recently funded National Science Foundation Center on Pandemic Insights.  Dr. Mitra was the inaugural Editor-in-Chief for the IEEE Transactions on Molecular, Biological and Multi-scale Communications.   Her honors include: the 2024 IEEE Information Theory Society’s Aaron D. Wyner Distinguished Service Award, the 2021 USC Viterbi School of Engineering Senior Research Award, the 2017 IEEE Communications Society Women in Communications Engineering Technical Achievement Award, a 2016 UK Royal Academy of Engineering Distinguished Visiting Professorship, a 2016 US Fulbright Scholar Award,   2012 Globecom Signal Processing for Communications Symposium Best Paper Award, 2012 US National Academy of Engineering Lillian Gilbreth Lectureship, Student Best Paper Award, as co-advisor, at the International Conference on Signal Processing and Communications, Bangalore India 2012, the 2009 DCOSS Applications & Systems Best Paper Award, 2001 Okawa Foundation Award, 2000 OSU College of Engineering Lumley Award for Research, 1997 OSU College of Engineering MacQuigg Award for Teaching, and a 1996 National Science Foundation CAREER Award.  Her research interests are in:  model-based machine learning, wireless communications, communication and sensor networks, biological communication systems, and the interface of communication, sensing and control