She previously held postdoctoral positions in the Division of Control and Dynamical Systems at the California Institute of Technology (2007-2008) and in the Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2006-2007). She received her B.E. degree from the American University of Beirut in 1996, and her M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1998 and 2006, respectively.