She is a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Illinois Chicago (UIC).
She also holds a joint appointment with Argonne National Laboratory.
From 2002 to 2023, she was a tenured Professor of Computer Science at the Illinois Institute of Technology.
She received her Ph.D. from Northwestern University in 2002 (Thesis Advisor: Valerie Taylor).
She co-leads the SPEAR Team with Professor Mike Papka. SPEAR is part of the UIC EVL lab.

If you are interested in joining the SPEAR Team at UIC, please apply for UIC CS PhD Program and list my name in your statement. Meanwhile, feel free to email me with your resume and transcript(s).

Research Expertise

in high-performance computing (HPC) & parallel and distributed systems

• Resource Management and Scheduling
• Energy Efficiency
• AI4Sys and AI4Science
• Digital Twins
• Fault Tolerance

Professional Services

• Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS), 2014-2018
• IPDPS’20 System Software Vice Chair, IEEE/ACM SC2011 System Software Chair, ACM ICS’17 Financial Chair, GCASR’17 & GCASR’24 Co-Chair, IEEE Cluster’23 Track Co-Chair (Architecture,Networks/Communications, and Management)
• Keynote talk “Mathemetics Meets Machines: My Journey into High-Performance Computing” hosted by the Chicago Women in High-Performance Computing (CWHPC) Link