She joined Columbia in Fall 2011 after finishing her Ph.D. at the University of Washington. For her work in cloud and mobile data privacy, she received an Early Career Award in Cyber security from the University of Washington Center for Academic Excellence, a Microsoft Research Faculty Fellowship,a 2014 "Brilliant 10'' Popular Science nomination, an NSF CAREER award,an Honorable Mention for the 2013 inaugural Dennis M. Ritchie Doctoral Dissertation Award, a William Chan Dissertation Award, two best paper awards at top systems conferences, and the first Google Ph.D.Fellowship in Cloud Computing.