Piya Pal is an Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of California, San Diego, where she was also a founding faculty of the Haliciouglu Data Science Institute (HDSI). She obtained her B.Tech in Electronics and Electrical Communication Engineering from IIT Kharagpur, India in 2007, and her Ph.D in Electrical Engineering from Caltech in 2013. Her Ph.D thesis was awarded the 2014 Charles and Ellen Wilts Prize for Outstanding Doctoral Thesis in Electrical Engineering at Caltech. Her research interests include signal representation and sampling techniques for high-dimensional signal/data processing, (sparse) sensor arrays for sensing and communication, mathematical foundations of super-resolution imaging, and optimization and machine learning for inverse problems.  Her contributions to sparse sensing have been recognized by several awards, including the 2020 IEEE Signal Processing Society Pierre-Simon Laplace Early Career Technical Achievement Award, and the 2019 US Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE). She is also a recipient of the 2019 Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Program (ONR YIP) award, the 2016 NSF CAREER and several best paper awards with her Ph.D students. She has served as an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, IEEE Signal Processing Magazine and as Lead and Guest Editors for IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Information Theory.