Her research interests are directed towards multimedia systems and networks, quality of service (QoS) routing, QoS and resource management for distributed multimedia systems over wire-line and wireless networks, and multimedia operating systems. She is the coauthor of the widely used multimedia book `Multimedia: Computing, Communications and applications' published by Prentice Hall, the recipient of the Early NSF Career Award, the Junior Xerox Award, and the IEEE Communication Society Leonard Abraham Award for Research Achievements. She is the editor-in-chief of the ACM/Springer Multimedia Systems Journal, and the Ralph and Catherine Fisher Associate Professor.