Her research lab, HPC Factory, is interested in "all-things" high-performance computing with an emphasis on parallel algorithms, performance analysis and tuning, and domain-specific compilers. She is a recipient of the Intel Ph.D. fellowship (2012), ACM/IEEE George Michael Memorial HPC fellowship (2010), Best Paper Award at IEEE Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS, 2010), and co-recipient of the ACM Gordon Bell Prize (2010) among others. She received her Ph.D. in Computational Science and Engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) in 2013 and was a research scientist at MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) with the Compilers at MIT (COMMIT) research group.