Muyinatu Bell is the John C. Malone Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, and Computer Science at Johns Hopkins University, where she founded (2016) and directs the Photoacoustic and Ultrasonic Systems Engineering (PULSE) Lab (https://pulselab.jhu.edu). Prof. Bell holds a doctorate in biomedical engineering from Duke University (2012) and a bachelor's in mechanical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2006). She is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Biomedical Optics, having previously served as Associate Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control (T-UFFC), Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, and as an Editorial Advisory Board member of GEN Biotechnology. She is also a member of the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI) Imaging Program Scientific Advisory Board. Her research is funded by leading government agencies and private foundations, including the NIH, NSF, ARPA-H, and CZI, with patents issued and/or pending for short-lag spatial coherence beamforming, photoacoustic guided surgery, and deep learning for beamforming. Among her numerous awards and honors, Prof. Bell has been recognized with MIT Technology Review’s Innovator Under 35 Award (2016), the NSF CAREER Award (2018), the NIH Trailblazer Award (2018), the Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship (2019), Maryland’s Outstanding Young Engineer Award (2019), the SPIE Early Career Achievement Award (2021), the IEEE Ultrasonics Early Career Investigator Award (2022), and the NSF Alan T. Waterman Award (2024). Prof. Bell is a Fellow of AIMBE, SPIE, and Optica, and a Franklin Institute Laureate.