Prior to that she was a postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Mathematics of Information at California Institute of Technology. Her main research interests are in information theory and statistical signal processing. She received her Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and M.S. in Statistics from Stanford University in 2009. She has received her B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from Sharif University of Technology in 2002 and her M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from the same institution in 2004.