Maria Gini joined the Department of Computer Science & Engineering in 1982 as an assistant professor and was later promoted to a professor. She also served as the associate head of the department from 2005-15. Gini is a member of ACM, IEEE, and the IEEE Robotics Society. She was named a Morse-Alumni Distinguished Teaching Professor in 1987, was named a College of Science & Engineering Distinguished Professor in 2008, was named an IEEE Fellow in 2018, was named an ACM Fellow in 2019, and received the President’s Award for Outstanding Service in 2019.