From 1996 to 2008 she had been a Research Staff Member in the Design Automation department at the IBM T. J. Watson Research Center. She holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Northwestern University, December 1995, an MS in Computer Science from University of Illinois at Chicago, and a BS in Mathematics from University of Athens, Greece. Evanthias research interests are in Design and Analysis of Algorithms, Computational Geometry, Applications of Graph and Geometric Algorithms, VLSI Computer-Aided Design and Manufacturing.