Piya Pal, advised by Professor P P Vaidyanathan, is the winner of this year's Charles Wilts Prize, for her doctoral thesis "New directions in sparse sampling and estimation for underdetermined systems". The Charles Wilts Prize is awarded every year to a graduate student in Electrical Engineering for outstanding independent research. Piya Pal has started her career as an Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering at University of Maryland, College Park.
