Her current research areas include precision medicine, circulating tumor cells, nanotechnology, microfluidics, BioMEMS, nanomaterials, inertial microfluidics, cancer detection, cancer diagnostics, and personalized therapies. She received her M.S. in Nuclear Engineering and her Ph.D in Mechanical Engineering from the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York. This was followed by a postdoctoral fellowship at the Center for Engineering in Medicine.