She received her Ph.D in Computer Science at University of California, Los Angeles in 2013. Prior to UCLA, she had worked as an associate/assistant researcher in the Wireless and Networking Group at Microsoft Research Asia (MSRA) between 2005 and 2009. Her research interests are in the broad areas of mobile networking, system and security, with a focus on 3G/4G mobile networks and future mobile networks, mobile sensing systems, , wireless networking, and network security.