She received her BS degree in physics from Moscow State University (Moscow, Russia), and her PhD in applied physics from Cornell University in 2008. She is the author of more than 30 journal papers and the co-inventor on two patents. Her current research interests include nanophotonics, ultrafast lasers, and cavity quantum electrodynamics. Research in her lab focuses on the different ways of controlling light on the subwavelength scale via modifying the photonic environment. Projects include ultrafast nanocavity LEDs for visible light communications, emerging aluminum-doped zinc oxide metamaterials for light control, and microcavity-based optical sensors for bio-medical applications.