She is currently a professor of computer science at the University of Texas at Austin and vice managing director of Microsoft Research Asia.
She moved to the US for her undergraduate studies, earning a bachelor's degree with honors for a double major in computer science and physics at the University of Bridgeport.
[2] Her dissertation, An Integrated Approach to Improving Web Performance, was jointly supervised by Robbert van Renesse and George Varghese.
[3] After working at Microsoft Research, Redmond, WA|Microsoft Research (MSR), Redmond, WA from 2001 to 2004, she joined the Department of Computer Science at University of Texas at Austin as an Assistant Professor in 2005, and later promoted to a tenured Professor.
She was also recognized as N2Women: Stars in Computer Networking and Communications in 2017, ACM Distinguished Scientist in 2013, and NSF CAREER Award in 2006.