She obtained her M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees both in computer science from Purdue University in 1993 and 1995, respectively. Her main research interests are in network-centric databases and more recently in preferences and ranking. She has published more than 100 papers in these areas. She is the recipient of the ICDE 1999 Best Paper Award and of a Marie Curie EC Fellowship in 2009. Among others, she has served as an area-chair for ICDE in 2005 and 2008, as poster co-chair for WWW 2010 and is a PC group leader for SIGMOD 2010.