Cristiana received her B.S. degree in Computer Engineering from Bucharest Polytechnic Institute in 1991, and her M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from Rice University in 1997 and 2003 respectively. Her research interests are in infrastructure design for distributed systems that can automatically adapt to a changing environment and workload through self-managing, self-tuning and self-healing. Her most recent work focuses on design, implementation and evaluation of adaptive algorithms for data analytics in distributed systems.