She leads Tufts LiNKS, the Laboratory for communIcations in NetworKed Systems, which conducts research in wireless systems, signal processing, and networked communications. She and her group have published extensively in the areas of cooperative and cognitive communications, MIMO capacity and pre-coding, and energy-efficient communications. Vu has served on the technical program committee of numerous IEEE conferences and is currently an editor for IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications. She is a senior member of the IEEE.