Arunita Jaekel received her B.Eng. in Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering from Jadavpur University, India, and her M.A.Sc. and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Windsor, Canada. Since 1995, she has been working as a faculty member in the School of Computer Science at the University of Windsor, where she is currently a tenured professor. Her current research interests include reliable vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communication, design of survivable WDM networks, and wireless sensor networks.