She received her PhD and MS from MIT in 2003 and 1999, and her Bachelor of Science from Damascus University in 1995. Her doctoral dissertation won a Sprowls award and an ACM Honorable Mention award. She has won the best student paper award in SIGCOMM 2000. She has published in many conferences including SIGCOMM, NSDI, IMC, etc. Recently, she has organized and co-chaired the first SIGCOMM workshop on Practice and Theory of Incentives in Networked Systems (PINS) and the SRUTI Usenix Workshop on Network Security.