She received her Ph.D. degree from the University of California, Los Angeles in 2004 and was an Industrial Postdoctoral Associate at the Institute for Mathematics and its Applications (IMA), University of Minnesota during 2004-2006. After that, she joined The Ohio State University as a regular faculty member. She specializes in numerical analysis and scientific computing. Her research interests focus on shape optimization for eigenvalue problems, efficient numerical methods for nonlinear partial differential equations, and computational biology. She received Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship in 2009. Her work is also recognized by the MICCAI paper award, NSF research grants, and SIAM News.