Dr. Cruz-Pol is a Professor at the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at UPRM (on leave) and currently a Program Director for the Engineering Research Centers at NSF. She is a member of U.S. National Academies (NAS) Committee on Radio Frequencies (CORF). She was also an appointed member of the NAS Active Spectrum Study. She was the Program Director for the EARS (Enhancing Access to the Radio Spectrum) program at NSF where she was also a Spectrum Manager. She is a member of the IEEE FARS (Frequency Allocations for Remote Sensing) Technical Committee. She was appointed by NSF as member of the U.S. Delegation for Spectrum Management to the ITU in Geneva and was the NSF Representative for the Interdepartment Radio Advisory Committee (IRAC) at the U.S. National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) and for several subcommittees including the one that deals with Frequency Allocations, FAS. During her stay at NSF she was selected as the Federal Liaison for the U.S. National Committee for the International Union for Radio Science (URSI). She did her PhD at Penn State, MS at UMass and BS at UPRM, all three with the Suma Cum Laude distinction.