She received her Ph. D in Computer Engineering from the Pennsylvania State University in 1993. She was on the faculty of the Computer Science and Engineering department at the University of South Florida from 1993 to 1996. Her research interests are high performance processor and memory architectures, superscalar and superpipelined processors, program behavior studies, compiler optimization for high performance processors, rapid prototyping, Field Programmable Gate Arrays etc. Her research is supported by the National Science Foundation, the State of Texas Advanced Technology program, DELL Computer Corporation, IBM, AMD, Intel and Microsoft Corporations. She is recipient of an NSF CAREER award and a Junior Faculty Enhancement Award from Oak Ridge Associated Universities.