Before joining Stanford, she was a postdoctoral researcher with the Algorithmic Research on Networked Information Group at EPFL, Switzerland. She received her PhD degree in 2009 from the Information Processing Group at the same university and received her B.Sc. degrees in electrical engineering and physics from Middle East Technical University, Turkey, in 2001 and the M.Sc. degree in electrical engineering from the same university in 2004. From 2001 to 2004, Ayfer worked as a hardware design engineer for the Defense Industries Research and Development Institute in Turkey. Agenda: