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Dr. Chrysanthe Preza is the Kanuri Professor and former Chair (2017-2025) of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Memphis, where she joined in 2006. She also has an affiliate appointment with Biomedical Engineering. Dr. Preza is the Director of the Vertically Integrated Projects (VIP) Program at the Herff College of Engineering since 2022. She received her D.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering from Washington University in St. Louis in 1998. Her BSc and MSc degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science are also from WashU. She leads the research in the Computational Imaging Research Laboratory. Her research interests are imaging science, estimation theory, computational optical sensing and imaging applied to multidimensional multimodal light microscopy and hyperspectral imaging, and computational imaging enabled by deep learning. She received a CAREER award by the National Science Foundation in 2009, the Herff Outstanding Faculty Research Award in 2010 and 2015, and she was the recipient of the Ralph Faudree Professorship at the University of Memphis 2015-2018. Since 2018, she has been the recipient of the Ravi and Eleanor Kanuri Professorship. She was named Fellow of the SPIE in 2019 and Fellow of the Optica (former OSA) in 2020. She served as Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Computational Imaging, as Topical Editor for Optica’s Applied Optics, and as an Executive Editor for Biological Imaging, Cambridge University Press. She currently serves as an Editorial Board Member for Journal of Imaging, Computational Imaging and Computational Photography section