She earned a bachelor degree in Mathematics and Computer Science and a master degree in Computer Science from Babes-Bolyai University (Romania) in 2003 and 2004, respectively, and master and PhD degrees in Applied Mathematics from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County in 2007 and 2010, respectively. Prior to joining UC Merced, Noemi was the recipient of the ICES Postdoctoral Fellowship during 2010-2011 in the Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences (ICES) at The University of Texas at Austin, after which she joined the Center for Computational Geosciences and Optimization group in ICES as research associate. Her research interests include PDE-constrained optimization, inverse problems, uncertainty quantification and optimal experimental design.