Mireille Boutin graduated with a bachelor’s degree in Physics-Mathematics from the University of Montreal in 1996. She received the Ph.D. degree in Mathematics from the University of Minnesota in 2001 under the direction of Peter J. Olver. She joined Purdue University after a post-doctorate with David Mumford, David Cooper, and Ben Kimia at Brown University, Rhode Island, followed by a post-doctorate with Stefan Muller at the Max Plank Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences in Leipzig, Germany. She is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Mathematics and the Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Her research is in the area of signal processing, machine learning, and applied mathematics. She is a three-time recipient of Purdue’s Seed for Success Award. She is also a recipient of the Eta Kappa Nu Outstanding Faculty Award, the Eta Kappa Nu Outstanding Teaching Award and the Wilfred “Duke” Hesselberth Award for Teaching Excellence. She previously served as Associate Editor for the journals IEEE Signal Processing Letters, IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, and Applicable Algebra in Engineering, Communication and Computing. She is currently an associate editor for  La Matematica and the SIAM Journal on Applied Algebra and Geometry. She is a member of the Image, Video, and Multidimensional Signal Processing Technical Committee (IVMSP TC) of the IEEE Signal Processing Society.