Luana Ruiz is an assistant professor in the Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics. She received the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Pennsylvania in 2022, and the double B.Sc. and M.Eng. degree in electrical engineering from the University of São Paulo, Brazil and the École Supérieure d’Electricité (now CentraleSupélec), France, in 2017.
Luana was nominated an iREDEFINE fellow in 2019, a MIT EECS Rising Star in 2021, and was awarded the Eiffel Excellence scholarship from the French Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs between 2013 and 2015. She also received two Best Student Paper awards at the European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO) in 2019 and 2021.