She received her Ph.D. in Computer Science from North Carolina State University in 2010. She has conducted a broad range of research in security areas, including SDN/NFV security and IoT security. She has two NSF grants related to Smart City and SDN/NFV. She has worked on four industry projects in SDN/NFV, supported by Arista Inc., Nexenta Inc., and VMware Inc. She is a coordinator for the Cybersecurity Certificates program supported by the NIETP. Since 2016, she has served as Center Executive at the Center for STCCS at SJSU, a multidisciplinary research center in the area of the Smart City. She obtained an award of excellence as a distinguished faculty mentor for the SJSU Student Research Competition in 2017. She received the College of Engineering Research Professor Award, as the Kordestani Endowed Chair from 2016 to 2017.