Dr. Niki Pissinou received her Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Southern California, her M.S. in Computer Science from the University of California at Riverside, and her B.S.I.S.E. in Industrial and Systems Engineering from The Ohio State University. She is currently as a tenured professor and the director of the Telecommunication & Information Technology Institute at FIU.

Previously Dr. Pissinou was a tenured faculty at the Center For Advanced Computer Studies at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette where she was also the director of the Telecommunication & Information & Technology Laboratory partially funded by NASA, and the co-director of the NOMAD: A Wireless and Nomadic Laboratory partially funded by NSF, and the Advanced Network Laboratory. Dr. Pissinou is active in the fields computer networks, information technology and distributed systems.

Dr. Pissinou has published over hundred refereed publications and has received best paper awards. She has also co-edited seven volumes and is the author of an upcoming book on wireless Internet computing. She has received extensive funding for her research work from such agencies as NSF, NASA, DARPA and ARO including two recent NSF awards on Wireless Networks. Dr. Pissinou has also served as a steering committee, general chair and program committee member of over hundred programs and organizational committees of IEEE and ACM sponsored technical conferences. Dr. Pissinou has also refereed for a wide variety of conferences and journals, and has served as a reviewer on NSF and NASA panel reviews including the KDI and ITR panels. She has been the editor of eight journals including IEEE TKDE and guest editor of seven journals. She has received seven achievements awards and an invited speaker and keynote speaker of conferences.