Prior to joining UB as an assistant professor, she has been a post-doctoral research associate at the University of Texas at Dallas collaborating with the CICS and QoLT laboratories. She received the B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Tehran, Iran and the M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Texas at Dallas. Her research interests lie in the broad areas of biomedical signal processing and behavior analysis techniques, machine learning/classification, high-speed packet processing architectures, and digital/biomedical embedded systems. She is a member of IEEE, EMBS and IEEE Women in Engineering.