Meltem Izzetoglu received the Ph.D. degree in electrical and computer engineering from Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, USA, in 2002. She is an Assistant Professor in electrical and computer engineering with Villanova University, Villanova, PA, USA. Her research is centered around design, development, and testing of functional near infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS)-based brain imaging systems using laboratory phantoms, animal models and human experimentation, signal processing and algorithm development for artifact cancellation and information extraction. Her research projects involve the application of fNIRS technology for brain activity and physiological monitoring in everyday and everywhere environments as well as in clinics in all age groups from infants to older adults of healthy and disease populations such as traumatic brain injury and multiple sclerosis patients.