She received the B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens, Athens, Greece, in 1996, and the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of California, Los Angeles, in 1998 and 2000, respectively. She has worked at the Information Sciences Center, AT\&T Labs, Florham Park New Jersey, and the National University of Athens. She also visited Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ, and DIMACS, Rutgers University. Between 2006-2007, 2007-2012 and 2012-2013 she was an FNS Assistant Professor, an Assistant Professor and an Associate Professor, respectively, in the School of Computer and Communication Sciences, EPFL, Switzerland.