Sarah Kate Wilson earned her A.B. from Bryn Mawr College in Mathematics in 1979 and her Ph.D. from Stanford University in Electrical Engineering in 1994. She has worked in both industry and academia. She is a Professor Emerita of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Santa Clara University. She has served as an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, IEEE Communications Letters and IEEE Transactions on Communications and the Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Communications Letters. She served as the Director of Journals 2012-2013 and the Vice-President of Publications 2014-2015 for the IEEE Communications Society. She has served as the Chair of the IEEE Teaching Awards Committee and is currently serving on the IEEE Society and Council Review Committee. She was awarded the IEEE Communications Society Joseph LoCicero Award for Exemplary Service and won the 2018 IEEE Education Society Harriet Rigas Award “for excellence in communications engineering, education and promoting equity.