She is the recipient of the IEEE Signal Processing Society Young Author Best Paper Award in 2013 and the Best Paper Award at ICASSP 2012. She received the Young Investigator Program Awards from AFOSR and ONR respectively in 2015, the Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Award from Oak Ridge Associated Universities in 2014, and Google Faculty Research Award in 2013. Her research interests include statistical signal processing, machine learning, information theory and their applications in high-dimensional data analysis, network inference, radar and bioinformatics.