She received her Ph.D. degree from University of Rhode Island in 2012. She was the recipient of the 2013 University of Rhode Island Graduate School Excellence in Doctoral Research Award. With expertise in trustworthy computing and cyber security, her research interests include three major directions: online social network security, trust management in cyber-physical systems and trustworthy cloud computing. Her work on securing online reputation systems received the best paper award at the IEEE International Conference on Social Computing 2010 (acceptance rate = 13%).