Her main research interests are in context-aware mobile and distributed systems, with applications to mobile systems, smart spaces and smart grids for energy management. Before joining CMU-Rwanda, she was a research fellow and later research professor at Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST) in South Korea (2006 to 2009), and research director of the TecO group at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany (2009 to 2011). She holds a doctoral degree in computer science from the University of Hamburg, Germany.