She received her Ph.D. in Computer Science from U.C. Berkeley in 2002 and a B.E. from the University of Pune, India in 1997. Prior to joining U.C. Berkeley, Sylvia was a senior research scientist at Intel where her work focussed on the design and implementation of energy-efficient and programmable networks. She is a recipient of the ACM SIGCOMM Test-of-Time award, the ACM SIGCOMM Rising Star award, the Alfred P. Sloan research fellowship, the Intel Early Career Faculty Award, the Yahoo! ACE Award and best paper awards at ACM SOSP and ACM IMC.