She is also an adjunct professor in the Computer Science Department and core faculty at the University of Missouri Informatics Institute. Before joining MU, she worked as a research staff member at NEC Laboratories in Princeton, N.J. Prior to that, Becchi worked for four years as a software engineer at IBM Germany Research and Development GmbH in Boeblingen, Germany. Her research interests include high-performance processor architectures, networking algorithms and architectures, data structure design and algorithm acceleration on parallel computer architectures.