She received her Ph.D. at University of Illinois in 2008. Her current research focuses on software reliability and efficiency. Shan has won Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow in 2014, Distinguished Alumni Educator Award (CS @ University of Illinois) in 2013, and NSF Career Award in 2010. Her co-authored papers won two ACM-SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Awards at ICSE 2015 and FSE 2014, one Best Paper Award at USENIX FAST 2013, an ACM-SIGPLAN Research Highlight Award in 2011, and an IEEE Micro Top Picks in 2006.