Anupama Kaul is the PACCAR Professor of Engineering at the University of North Texas (UNT). She serves as PI and Center Director of a $5 Million Consortium awarded to UNT from the Department of Energy since Spring 2023 involving multiple academic and government lab partners. From 2017–2023, she served as Director of the PACCAR Technology Institute at UNT. Before joining UNT in 2017, she was Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Studies in the College of Engineering and held the AT&T Distinguished Professorship in the Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) Department at the University of Texas, El Paso (UTEP). Before UTEP, she was appointed Program Director at the National Science Foundation (NSF), where she was on rotation as an IPA from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)-NASA, California Institute of Technology (Caltech). She is the recipient of the NSF Director's Award for Program Management Excellence. During her 12-year tenure at JPL-NASA, Caltech, she received the NASA Service Award, a NASA Team Technical Accomplishment Award, multiple NASA Patent Awards, and numerous NASA Technology Brief Awards for her research. She obtained her B.S. degrees in physics and engineering physics from Oregon State University, while her M.S. and Ph.D. degrees were from UC Berkeley in Materials Science and Engineering with minors in ECE and Physics.