Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology. She received her Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering (minor in Mathematics) from Stanford University in 2011. Prior joining Georgia Tech, she worked as a Research Scientist at Duke University. Her research areas include computational statistics, signal processing, and machine learning, in providing theoretical insights, developing computationally efficient and statistically powerful algorithms for various application, including sensor networks, social networks, imaging, material science, geophysics, communications. She received a Best Student Paper Award at Annual Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers in 2005, Finalist of Best Student Paper Award in ICASSP Conference in 2007, and the National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award in 2017.