She received her PhD from Technion (Israel) what feels like yesterday, working with Nissim Francez, Michael Rodeh and Oded Goldreich on theoretical aspects of distributed algorithms. From 1986 to 1997 she was a researcher in the MIT Programming Methodology Group with Barbara Liskov. She joined Brandeis in 1997. In 2004-2005 she was a visiting researcher at Microsoft Research, Cambridge, UK.