She earned a Ph.D. from the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Washington, a Master’s degree from MIT, and a BSEE from South Dakota State University. Dr. Hassoun’s research interest is Bio Design Automation and Computer-Aided Design for integrated circuits. Dr. Hassoun is an NSF CAREER award recipient and has served on the technical and executive committees for several conferences and workshops. Hassoun is a Tau Beta Pi Fellow. She is a member of ACM, a senior member of IEEE, and Eta Kappa Nu.