She is also the Director of the Laboratory for Ocean Acoustics and Ecosystem Sensing at Northeastern University. She holds a PhD in Acoustics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT, 2002). She was previously a Postdoctoral Associate in the Department of Ocean Engineering at MIT (2002-2004) and a Research Scientist at Singapore's DSO National Laboratories (1994-1998). She was awarded the ONR Postdoctoral Award in Ocean Acoustics in 2002, the Bruce Lindsay Award by the Acoustical Society of America in 2006, the ONR Young Investigator (YIP) Award in 2007, and the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) in 2008. She is a Fellow of the Acoustical Society of America.