Prior to joining USC, she was an assistant professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Cornell University. She received the B.A.Sc. degree in Engineering Science from the University of Toronto in 2004 and the S.M. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT in 2006 and 2011, respectively. She is the recipient of the NSF CAREER Award and has been named by the MIT Technology Review as one of the world’s top 35 innovators under the age of 35 (TR35) for her work on brain-machine interfaces.