Pina Marziliano was born on May 12, 1971 in Montreal, Canada and is of Italian origin.

She completed her Bachelors of Science degree in Applied Mathematics at the University of Montreal in the Mathematics and Statistics department in 1994. During the B.Sc., she was awarded two summer internship scholarships from the Natural Science and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) of Canada and she was also an exchange student during her last semester at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne, also known as the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL), in Switzerland.

In 1996 she completed her Masters of Science degree in Computer Science and was a recipient of  a NSERC scholarship.  She worked on Multi-objective with assignment constraints problems in the Operations Research Laboratory at the University of Montreal with Prof. Jacques Ferland. She was also a teaching assistant for an Introduction to Operations Research course.

She returned to Switzerland to complete a preparatory Doctoral school in the Communications Systems Department at the EPFL in 1997. In 2001 she completed her Ph.D.degree in Communication Systems with  Prof. Martin Vetterli.  She worked on sampling and reconstruction methods for a class of non-bandlimited signals, that were defined as signals with a finite rate of innovation for which a patent was filed in March 2002, together with Prof. Vetterli and Dr. Blu. During her Ph.D she was also teaching assistant for the Introduction to Signal Processing course and the Introduction to Information Theory course.

After the Ph.D, she worked as a Research Engineer in a start-up company called Genimedia SA in Lausanne, Switzerland. Her main task was to develop perceptual quality metrics for multimedia applications and is co-author of a  patent for a No-Reference  Perceptual Blur Metric filed in April 2002.

In 2003, she became an Assistant Professor for the Information Engineering Division in the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at the Nanyang Technological University in Singapore.

From July 2006-July 2007, she was seconded to the International Relations Office of the Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. Her main role was to co-strategise and manage the international partnerships. She negotiated and interacted with exchange partners as well as liaised with local and international faculty on international relations. She also participated in representing the university during visits from foreign audiences/partners on campus or abroad and acted as an in-house consultant in advising on the teaching quality of overseas programmes and institutions.

In April 2007, she received the IEEE Signal Processing Society 2006 Best Paper Award for the article "Sampling Signals with Finite Rate of Innovation" co-authored with Martin Vetterli and Thierry Blu. A patent for her work related to sampling was granted in May 2006 and was then acquired by Qualcomm Inc in December 2007.

Since January 2009, she is Associate Editor for IEEE Signal Processing Letters and the Chair of the IEEE Singapore Section Women In Engineering Affinity Group.

She teaches Digital Signal Processing and supervises undergraduate Final Year Projects, Masters and PhD graduate students.

Her  research interests include: