Spangler Faculty Scholar, & Fellow of the WID at UW-Madison. She completed her PhD in ECE at Rice University in 2005 and was an Assistant then tenured Associate Professor of ECE at Duke University from 2005 to 2013. Willett received the NSF CAREER Award in 2007, is a member of the DARPA Computer Science Study Group, and received an AFOSR Young Investigator Program award in 2010.