[5] After a brief post-doc at Stanford, she joined the Department of Electrical Engineering at Princeton University in 1994 as an assistant professor.
[5] In the area of power-aware computer architecture, Martonosi is known for her work on the Wattch power modeling infrastructure.
[8][9][10][11] In the area of mobile systems, some of Martonosi's early work included the design and deployment of mobile sensors for tracking zebras in Kenya [12][13] This work demonstrated the use of delay tolerant protocols [14] and low-power GPS devices [15] for wildlife tracking.
[21] In 2017 she received the SIGMOBILE Test-of-Time Award for the ASPLOS 2002 paper entitled "Energy-Efficient Computing for Wildlife Tracking: Design Tradeoffs and Early Experiences with ZebraNet," with co-authors Philo Juang, Hidekazu Oki, Yong Wang, Li-Shiuan Peh, and Daniel Rubenstein.
[22] In 2021, Martonosi was elected as a member of the National Academy of Engineering "for contributions to power-aware and power-efficient computer architectures and mobile systems".
[23] In June 2021, Martonosi won the ACM-IEEE CS Eckert-Mauchly Award "for contributions in power-aware computing.