She is an Assistant Director of the Watson Institute for Systems Excellence at Binghamton. She received a B.A. (HONS) degree in quantitative analysis for business from the City University of Hong Kong, an M.S. degree in operations research from the University of Delaware, and a Ph.D. degree in industrial engineering from the University of Pittsburgh. Her current research involves adaptive optimization, data mining, stochastic simulation, and neural networks. She is a member of IIE and IEEE.