She received PhD in Computer Science from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville focused on automatic and adaptive optimizations of MPI collective operations under supervision of Dr. Jack Dongarra, Dr. George Bosilca, and Dr. Graham Fagg. At the University of Tennessee, she was an active developer on FT-MPI and OpenMPI projects. Prior to the UT, she worked as an undergraduate research assistant at the Mathematical Modeling and Analysis group at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, modeling tumor growth under supervision of Dr. Ji Yiang. She received B.S. degrees in Computer Science and Physics from Ramapo College of New Jersey.