Billur Barshan was born in Istanbul, Turkey. After graduating from A.C.I., Izmir, she continued her studies at Boğaziçi University, Istanbul, and received B.S. degrees in both Electrical Engineering and Physics. She received the M.S., M.Phil. and Ph.D. degrees all in Electrical Engineering from Yale University, New Haven, CT, U.S.A. During her graduate studies, she was a research assistant to Professor Roman Kuc. After working as a post-doctoral research fellow with Professor Hugh Durrant-Whyte in the Robotics Research Group at the University of Oxford, U.K., Dr. Barshan joined Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey, where she is currently a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering. She has established the Robotics and Sensing Laboratory in the same department. Dr. Barshan is the recipient of the Nakamura Prize (1994) awarded to the most outstanding paper at the 1993 IEEE/RSJ Int. Conf. on Intelligent Robots and Systems, and the IEEE SIU Conference Best Paper Award (2001). She also received the TÜBİTAK Incentive Award (1998) in Engineering and the METU Mustafa Parlar Foundation Research Award (1999). She served on the Management Committee of the COST-IC0903 Action MOVE as the representative of Turkey between 2010 and 2013. Currently, she serves on the Editorial Board of Digital Signal Processing journal (Elsevier) and as a Guest Editor for IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing (special issue on ``Intelligent Robotics: Sensing, Signal Processing and Interactions''). Dr. Barshan's current research interests include intelligent sensing, wearable sensing, wearable robots and mechanisms, motion capture and analysis, detection and classification of falls, sensor-based robotics, ultrasonic, optical, and inertial sensing, and multi-sensor data fusion.