She has been awarded the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship (2004-2007), the Herbert Kunzel Engineering Fellowship from USC (2007-2008, 2010-2011), the Intel Research Fellowship (2008-2010), and the Achievement Rewards for College Scientists (ARCS) Award (2009-2010). Her research interests are in human-centered speech and video processing and multimodal interface design. The goals of her research are motivated by the complexities of human emotion generation and perception.