She is currently serving as the Department's Graduate Coordinator and is a co-Director of the CSUN Graphics and Mobile Computing (GMC) Lab. She received her Ph.D. and her M.S. in Computer Science and her B.S. in Computer Science and Engineering from UCLA. She has been affiliated faculty with the UCLA Wireless Health Institute, research faculty with the UCLA Computer Science Department, and a visiting researcher at the Micrel Lab at the University of Bologna. She has served on numerous technical program and organizing committees in her field, along with serving as an associate editor for the journal Wireless Networks. She has over 55 peer-reviewed publications, a DAC best paper nomination, and a MobiCASE Best Paper award. Her research interests include mobile and hardware security, wearable and wireless health systems, and algorithm design for embedded systems.