She received her BS degree in Electrical Engineering from Cornell University, and Diploma and Ph.D. Degrees in Computer Science from Cambridge University in England. After completion of her Ph.D., she joined Cornell University, Department of Electrical Engineering as an Assistant Professor. In January, 1996 she joined the faculty of Northeastern University, where she is a member of the Center for Communications and Digital Signal Processing and the Computer Engineering group, and head of the Rapid Prototyping Laboratory. In 1992 she received an NSFYoung Investigator Award. Her research interests include hardware description languages, high level synthesis, and reconfigurable computing for signal and image processing applications. She is a senior member of the IEEE, and a member of the ACM.