Dr. Sita Gullapalli earned her B.Tech. in Electronics Engineering from Madras Institute of Technology in 1981 and her Ph.D. from the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore. She served as a faculty member in the Department of Electrical Engineering at IISc and subsequently at the University of Mumbai. Dr. Gullapalli has mentored numerous students and made significant contributions through her publications in statistical signal processing and machine learning.