Wendi Heinzelman is Dean of the Edmund A. Hajim School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at the University of Rochester. She is also a full professor in the Departments of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Computer Science. She received a BS degree in Electrical Engineering from Cornell University and MS and PhD degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT. Her research interests include wireless communications and networking, mobile-cloud computing and multimedia communication. She has contributed to 12 textbooks and has published in more than 150 journals and conferences, with over 55,000 citations to her work. She has served as Chair of the IEEE ComSoc Emerging Technologies Standing Committee, where she has worked with ComSoc members to develop existing and new Emerging Technology Initiatives. She is a co-founder and a steering committee member of N^2 Women, a Fellow of the ACM, and a Fellow of the IEEE.