[3] She was a high school exchange student at Atlantic College in Wales when the Iranian Revolution caused the rest of her family to flee Iran, settling in Los Angeles in the late 1970s.
After finishing high school in Wales,[1] she studied electrical engineering as an undergraduate at the California Institute of Technology, graduating in 1983.
[3] Her doctoral dissertation, Reconstruction of multidimensional signals from multiple level threshold crossings, was supervised by Alan V.
[1] While continuing at Berkeley, she co-founded OPC Technology in 1996, a software supplier to the integrated circuit manufacturing industry which after several acquisitions became part of Siemens.
[8] Zakhor married another MIT student and Berkeley electrical engineering professor, Seth Sanders.