Irith Pomeranz received the B.Sc degree (Summa cum Laude) in Computer Engineering and the D.Sc degree from the Department of Electrical Engineering at the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology in 1985 and 1989, respectively. From 1989 to 1990 she was a Lecturer in the Department of Computer Science at the Technion. From 1990 to 2000 she was a faculty member in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Iowa. In 2000 she joined the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue University. Her research interests include testing of VLSI circuits, design for testability, synthesis, and design verification. Dr. Pomeranz is a recipient of the NSF Young Investigator Award in 1993, and of the University of Iowa Faculty Scholar Award in 1997.

Three of her conference papers won best paper awards, and four other papers were nominated for best paper awards. One of the papers she co-authored was selected by the 2016 International Test Conference as the most significant paper published 10 years before. She delivered a keynote speech at the 2006 Asian Test Symposium. She was one of the very first three featured authors on IEEE Xplore, posted February 11-25, 2020. She is a Fellow of IEEE and a Golden Core Member of the IEEE Computer Society.