She obtained her Honors B. Eng in Electrical Engineering from McGill University in 2001, her M.Sc. and Ph.D in Engineering Sciences from the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Harvard University in 2007, and was a lecturer at Harvard for 1 year before joining UIC in 2009. Natasha was a recipient of an NSF CAREER award in 2011 and was named UIC's Researcher of the Year in the "Rising Star" category in 2012. She has been an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, IEEE Journal of Selected Areas in Communications, and is currently an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Cognitive Communications and Networking. Her research focuses on multi-user information theory and applications to cognitive and software-defined radio, radar, relay and two-way communication networks.