She received BS from the special class for the gifted young program at University of Science and Technology of China in 1999 and Ph.D in computer science from Computer Science department, Stanford University in 2004. She received NSF Career award in 2006, IMC best paper award in 2008 and multiple awards at Stony Brook CS department on Excellence in Research. She has published over 120 papers on sensor/wireless networks, computational geometry and social network analysis. She has served on the editorial board of IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering and currently serves on the editorial board of ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks and Journal of Discrete Algorithms.