Ms. Pagala is an ambitious and tech-savvy research professional with a background in image processing and video coding techniques. She holds a M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from The University of Texas at Arlington. At UT Arlington she worked in multimedia processing laboratory under the guidance of the late Dr. K.R. Rao, who co-invented Discrete Cosine Transforms (DCT) that is the heart of digital signal processing and communications, which is still used in wired and wireless technology today.