Dr. Bugallo teaches courses related to digital communications, stochastic processes and information theory. She has also offered summer seminars at international institutions on statistical signal processing methods and advances and applications of particle filtering.

Dr. Bugallo is a senior member of the IEEE, serves on several of its technical committees (Sensor Array and Multichannel -SAM- and Signal Processing Theory and Methods - SPTM) and is the current chair of the IEEE Signal Processing Society Education Committee. She has been part of technical committees that organized various professional conferences and workshops. She has received several prestigious research and education awards including the SUNY Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching (2017), the NSF CAREER Award (2010), the award for Best Paper in the IEEE Signal Processing Magazine 2007 as coauthor of a paper entitled "Particle Filtering," the IEEE Outstanding Young Engineer Award (2009), for development and application of computational methods for sequential signal processing, the IEEE Athanasios Papoulis Award (2011), for innovative educational outreach that has inspired high school students and college level women to study engineering, the Stony Brook University Hispanic Heritage Month (HHM) Latino Faculty Recognition Award (2009), and the Chair of Excellence by the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid-Banco de Santander (Spain) (2012).