She is a professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Toronto.
Pavel graduated from the Gheorghe Asachi Technical University of Iași in Romania in 1989.
She received a Ph.D. in electrical engineering in 1996, from Queen's University at Kingston in Ontario, Canada.
[3] Pavel is the author of the book Game Theory for Control of Optical Networks (Birkhäuser, 2012).
[4] Pavel was named to the 2025 class of IEEE Fellows "for contributions to game theory, control, and optimization for network systems".