She received her Ph.D. degree from Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) in the United States in May 2015. At CMU, she was part of both the School of Computer Science and the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department. Her research interests are at the intersection of cyber security, big data, and socio-technical systems. She holds a Master and a Bachelor in Communication Systems from the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland.