Tian joined Mason after spending 14 years on the faculty of the Electrical and Computer Engineering department of Michigan Technological University, during which she also served a three-year term as Program Director for the Communications, Circuits and Sensing Systems program in the Division of Electrical Communications and Cyber Systems (ECCS) at the National Science Foundation.

Research
Research Interests
Statistical Signal Processing, Communications, Distributed Network Optimization and Learning, Detection, Estimation and Tracking