Philippa Martin  Philippa Anne Martin is a Kiwi electrical engineering academic and a senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. She is currently a full professor at the University of Canterbury. After a 2001 PhD titled "Adaptive iterative decoding: block turbo codes and multilevel codes" at the University of Canterbury, she moved to the University of Hawaii before returning to Canterbury and rising to full professor. From 2005 to 2008 and from 2015 to 2016, she was an editor for the IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications journal.