She received her Ph.D. degree in the Electrical and Computer Engineering from the National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore, in 2010. Before coming to Texas Tech, she was a postdoctoral scholar in the Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, University of California, San Diego (UCSD), from 2010 to 2013, and was a research fellow at the Center for Offshore Research and Engineering, NUS, from 2009 to 2010. Her current research interests include robust control, power electronics control, renewable energy and grid integration, microgrid control. Dr. Ren received the 2017 TechConnect National Innovation Award for their microgrid technology "Robust Droop Control for Parallel Operated Inverters".