Prior to that, she was a postdoc in the same department, a PhD student at the Dipartimento di Elettronica e Informazione at Politecnico di Milano and conducted a visiting period at the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Her main research interest is the application of control theory to computing systems, in particular real-time systems and software engineering. She has been working on the design of automated control methodologies and on obtaining predictable response times for cloud computing and operating systems. She has been members of several program committees, including major conferences like RTSS (Real-Time Systems Simposium), ECRTS (Euromicro Conference on Real-Time Systems) and RTAS (Real-Time Application Symposium).