She received the Sc. B., M.Eng., E.E., and Sc.D degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA. Prior to joining CU Boulder, she was a Postdoctoral Associate in the MIT Microsystems Technology Laboratories and was an Assistant Professor at the University of Texas at Dallas from 2014 to 2016. She is the technical program chair of the Texas Symposium, and a member of MTT Technical Committee 5: Microwave high-power techniques, IEEE Young Professionals, and IEEE Women in Engineering.