Deepa Kundur's Bio

Deepa Kundur received the B.A.Sc., M.A.Sc., and Ph.D. degrees all in Electrical and Computer Engineering in 1993, 1995, and 1999, respectively, from the University of Toronto, Canada. In January 2003, she joined the Department of Electrical Engineering at Texas A&M University, College Station, where she is a member of the Wireless Communications Laboratory and holds the position of Associate Professor. Before joining Texas A&M, she was an Assistant Professor at the Edward S. Rogers Sr. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Toronto where she was the Bell Canada Junior Chair-holder in Multimedia and an Associate Member of the Nortel Institute for Telecommunications.
Dr. Kundur's research interests include protection of scalar and broadband sensor networks, multimedia security, and computer forensics. She is an elected member of the IEEE Information Forensics and Security Technical Committee, vice-chair of the Security Interest Group  of the IEEE Multimedia Communications Technical Committee and on the editorial boards of IEEE Communication Letters, IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, and EURASIP Journal on Information Security.  She was recently a guest editor for the 2007 EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing Special Issue on Visual Sensor Networks, and has been the receipient of the 2005 Tenneco Meritorious Teaching award, the 2006 Association of Former Students College Level Teaching award, and the 2007 Outstanding Professor Award in the ECE Department.