Leda Maria Lunardi is a Brazilian-American electrical engineer whose research concerns electronics, photonics, and optoelectronics.
She is a professor of electrical and computer engineering at North Carolina State University.
She followed a pre-medical track in high school, but after developing an aversion to the internals of human bodies, changed her focus, switching to physics on the advice of a teacher.
[4] From 2005 to 2007 she served as a program director for Electrical, Cyber and Communication Systems at the National Science Foundation.
[1] She was named a Fellow of the IEEE in 2002, "for contributions to the development of high-performance 1.55 um monolithically integrated photoreceiver for optical communication".