She received the B.E. and M.E. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran in 1995 and 1997, respectively, and the PhD degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia in 2006. Parastoo has co-authored more than 130 refereed journal and conference papers and a book on Hilbert Space Methods in Signal Processing (Cambridge Univ. Press, 2013). Her research interests are mainly in the areas of network coding, wireless communications systems, and signal processing.