Monica Bugallo
Associate Dean for Diversity and Outreach,
College of Engineering & Applied Sciences,
Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering
Mónica F. Bugallo is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Associate
Dean for Diversity and Outreach of the College of Engineering and Applied Sciences
at Stony Brook
University. She received her B.S., M.S, and Ph. D. degrees in computer science from
University of A Coruña, Spain. She joined the Department of Electrical and Computer
Engineering at Stony Brook University in 2002. Her research interests are in the field
of statistical signal processing, with emphasis on the theory of Monte Carlo methods
and its application to different disciplines including
biomedicine, ecology, sensor networks, and finance. In addition, she has focused on
STEM
education and has initiated several successful programs with the purpose of engaging
students at all academic stages in the excitement of engineering and research, with
focus on underrepresented
groups. She has authored and coauthored two book chapters and more than 185 journal
papers and
refereed conference articles.
Bugallo is a senior member of the IEEE, serves on several of its technical committees
and is the
current vice chair of the IEEE Signal Processing Society Signal Processing Theory
and Methods
Technical Committee and the chair of the EURASIP Special Area Team on Theoretical
and
Methodological Trends in Signal Processing as well as an elected member of the IEEE
Signal
Processing Society Sensor Array and Multichannel Technical Committee. She has been
part of the
technical committee and has organized various professional conferences and workshops.
She has
received several prestigious research and education awards including the State University
of New
York (SUNY) Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching (2017), the 2019 Ada
Byron Award of the Galician Society of Computer Engineers (Spain) for a successful
professional career path that
inspires women to engineering study and careers, the Best Paper Award in the IEEE
Signal
Processing Magazine 2007 as coauthor of a paper entitled Particle Filtering, the IEEE
Outstanding
Young Engineer Award (2009), for development and application of computational methods
for
sequential signal processing, the IEEE Athanasios Papoulis Award (2011), for innovative
educational outreach that has inspired high school students and college level women
to study
engineering, the Higher Education Resource Services (HERS) Clare Boothe Luce (CBL)
Scholarship
Award (2017), and the Chair of Excellence by the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid-Banco
de
Santander (Spain) (2012).