Dr. Shontz received her Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics from Cornell University in 2005. Professor Shontz is the recipient of a 2011 NSF CAREER Award for her research on parallel dynamic meshing algorithms, theory, and software for simulation-assisted medical interventions. In 2009, she received an Office of Naval Research Summer Faculty Fellowship for her research in computational materials science. Prof. Shontz received a National Physical Science Consortium Fellowship from 1999-2004 and an Honorable Mention for the Alice T. Schafer Prize for Women in Mathematics in 1999. Prof. Shontz has been actively involved with International Meshing Roundtable (IMR) and served as the IMR conference chair in 2010.