She received a B.S. from Columbia University School of Engineering in 1984 and an MS. (1986) and a Ph.D. (1988) from Princeton University in Computer Science. Her area of research is Scientific Visualization and Computer Graphics and she is the PI of the Vizlab, which is part of the CAIP Center at Rutgers University. She has taught courses in Computer Graphics, Visualization, Data Structures, Software Engineering and Robotics. She has worked on many aspects of visualization and is currently involved in distributed visualization, volume graphics, oceanographic visualization, and multimedia research efforts. She has