She received her M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Georgia Institute of Technology in 2003 and 2005. She also holds B.E. and M.E. degrees from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China in 1998 and 2001, respectively. Her current research interests include routing in mobile ad hoc networks, sensor networks, and space-based communication networks, modeling and performance evaluation of wireless opportunistic networks, and network security.