Dr. Lina Karam is an Expert Consultant, President of PICARIS, LLC, and Chief Technical Advisor at AIAEC LLC. She is also an Emerita Professor at Arizona State University. Dr. Karam is an IEEE Fellow and a recipient of the National Science Foundation CAREER Award, NASA Technical Innovation Award, Intel Outstanding Researcher Award, and IEEE Region 6 Award. She is an inventor with 8 issued US patents. She is also an expert delegate of the ISO/IEC JTC1/SC29 Committee. Dr. Karam served as Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Signal Processing (IEEE JSTSP). She served on the IEEE Signal Processing Society (SPS) Board of Governors, IEEE Circuits and Systems (CAS) Fellow Evaluation Committee, IEEE PSPB Strategic Planning Committee, IEEE TechRxiv Advisory Board (as Chair). She also served as the General Chair of IEEE ICIP 2016, General Co-Chair of IEEE ICME 2019. She is a member of IEEE EAB Faculty Resources Committee and of IEEE Industry Engagement Committee.