Before joining University of Illinois at Chicago, she was a Postdoctoral Associate in the CNRG group at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She received her Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from University of California, Irvine, M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Sabanci University, and B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from Istanbul University. During her Ph.D. at University of California, Irvine, she was a member of Networking Group. She worked as a summer intern in AT&T Labs Research, Docomo USA Labs, and Microsoft Research, Cambridge. Her personal page is here.