Her research interests span hardware systems and algorithms. In hardware- verification, analog/mixed signal verification and post Silicon validation; in algorithms- non-convex and functional optimization, graph search, feature engineering and their applications to data analysis. She has won several best paper awards including one at DAC 2014. She has won other honors like ACM SIGDA Outstanding New Faculty Award, IEEE early career award, IBM faculty award, Dean's award for research excellence in UIUC, NSF CAREER award, and a UIUC award for service to women in engineering. GoldMine, a verification software from her group has been developed into a commercial product since 2014 and licensed by multiple semiconductor and electronic design automation companies from UIUC.