Her research focuses on self-adaptive circuits and systems, and low-power sensing and processing for the internet-of-things. From 2008 till 2011, she worked in the Radio Integration Research Lab of Intel Labs, Hillsboro OR, doing research on digital assistance of configurable wireless radio front-ends. Marian received a PhD from KU Leuven cum ultima laude in 2008, and was a visiting scholar at the Berkeley Wireless Research Center (BWRC) of UC Berkeley in the summer of 2005.