She received her Ph.D. in Computer Science in 2013 at the University of California at Santa Barbara, and completed the M.S. in Computer Science in 2007 at Peking University. Her research interests lie in mobile systems, wireless networking, and dynamic spectrum access. Her recent research focuses on visible light communication systems and mobile sensing systems. She is a recipient of the Google Faculty Research Award in 2014. Her recent work won the Best Paper Award in the first ACM Workshop on Visible Light Communication Systems (VLCS) in 2014 and the Best Paper Award Nominee in UbiComp 2014. Her prior work on dynamic spectrum access won the Best Practical Paper Award in SIGMETRICS 2013 and Best Paper Award Finalist in MobiCom 2008.