She is also a core faculty affiliate of the Global Security Initiative at ASU. Previously, she was a postdoctoral researcher in Computer Science at Harvard University (2010-2012). She received the M.S.E. and Ph.D. degrees in Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics from the University of Pennsylvania in 2008 and 2010, respectively. She received the B.S.E. degree in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and a Certificate in Robotics and Intelligent Systems from Princeton University in 2005. Her research interests include the modeling, analysis, control, and optimization of robotic swarms; the analysis of collective behaviors in biology; and biologically-inspired control of distributed systems.