She received her Ph.D. in Computer Science from Technion, Israel in 2004, and has spent several years as a postdoc at MIT, University of Pennsylvania and Institute for Advanced Study, before joining TTIC in 2007. Her research area is theoretical computer science, with the main emphasis on the design and the analysis of approximation algorithms for NP-hard problems. She is a receipient of the NSF Career award, Sloan Research Fellowship, and she was an invited speaker at the 2014 International Congress of Mathematicians.