She is an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation and of the IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems.� She is a member of the Computing Research Association's Committee on the Status of Women in Computing Research (CRA-W) and she directs the CRA-W's Distributed Mentor Program (http://www.cra.org/Activities/craw/dmp/). Her main areas of research focus are motion planning, high-performance computing, and computational biology and geometry.�