From 2011 to 2014, she built and led the Intel Science & Technology Center on Embedded Computing (ISTC-EC) with $7.5 Million research funding. The ISTC-EC was hosted at Carnegie Mellon, driving research along collaborative perception, real time machine learning, robotics, and embedded architecture together with seven universities including Cornell, Georgia Tech, Penn State, UC Berkeley, UIUC, UPenn, and UW.