She received her B.E. (Hons.) in Electrical and Electronics Engineering, and Computer Science from the Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, India in 1994, and her M.S. and Ph.D in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Duke University in 1996 and 1998 respectively. Her research interests include software testing and reliability, Quality of Service issues in wireless and wireline networks and Voice-over-IP. She received a CAREER award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to conduct research in the area of architecture-based software reliability assessment in 2007. She is a Senior Member of the IEEE.