She received her B.S. in Engineering and B.A. in Economics from Swarthmore College and her PhD in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania. She leads the Scalable Autonomous Systems Lab at Drexel and her work focuses on developing distributed control and sensing strategies for many robot systems with applications in ocean sciences, factory automation, and environmental monitoring. She was a 2011 ONR Summer Faculty Fellow, a recipient of the 2012 Office of Naval Research (ONR) Young Investigator Award, and was awarded a 2013 National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award.