Gireeja Ranade is a postdoctoral researcher at Microsoft Research, Redmond. Prior to this, she was a lecturer in the EECS Department at UC Berkeley, designing and teaching the pilot version of new lower-division EECS classes (16AB). She received her MS and PhD in EECS from UC Berkeley, and her SB in EECS from MIT. She has worked on topics in brain-machine interfaces, information theory, control theory, wireless communications and crowdsourcing.