Deepa Kundur was born and raised in Toronto, Canada. She received the B.A.Sc., M.A.Sc., and Ph.D. degrees all in Electrical and Computer Engineering in 1993, 1995, and 1999, respectively, from the University of Toronto, Canada. In January 2003, she joined the Department of Electrical Engineering at Texas A&M University where she holds the position of Associate Professor. Before joining Texas A&M, she was an Assistant Professor at the Edward S. Rogers Sr. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Toronto where she was the Bell Canada Junior Chair-holder in Multimedia and an Associate Member of the Nortel Institute for Telecommunications.

Dr. Kundur's research interests include cybersecurity of the electric smart grid, cyber-physical system theory, security and privacy of social and sensor networks, multimedia security, and computer forensics. She is an appointed member of the NERC Smart Grid Task Force, an elected member of the IEEE Information Forensics and Security Technical Committee, vice-chair of the Security Interest Group of the IEEE Multimedia Communications Technical Committee and has been on the editorial boards of IEEE Communication Letters, IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, and EURASIP Journal on Information Security. She has been the recipient of the 2005 Tenneco Meritorious Teaching award, the 2006 Association of Former Students College Level Teaching award, and the 2007 Outstanding Professor Award in the ECE Department as well as co-receipient of Best Paper Awards at the 2011 Cyber Security and Information Intelligence Research Workshop published by ACM and the 2008 IEEE INFOCOM Workshop in Mission Critical Networks.