She received her Ph.D. in Computer Science from University of Southern California in 2006. Her research interests include software process, software measurement and metrics, software engineering cost modeling, software product lines, requirements engineering, and empirical software engineering methods. She has served as Program Co-Chairs of International Conference on Software Processes 2010 (ICSP 2010), and Program Committee for Software Engineering in Practice track of ICSE 2011, Software Process Workshop 2005-2006, ICSP since 2007, and International Conference on Composition-Based Systems and Software (ICCBSS) since 2003. She has about 50 technical publications on major software engineering journals and conferences including IEEE Software, Int. Conf. on Software Engineering (ICSE), International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement (ESEM), etc.