She works on decision-making under high uncertainty, currently applying robust optimization to healthcare finance problems. Her doctoral students have gone on to successful careers at American Airlines, Capital One, Ernst and Young, IBM, Marriott International, Amazon.com and JP Morgan, where their skills in analytics, robust optimization and risk management have been in high demand. The recipient of an IBM Faculty Award, the first prize in the George E. Nicholson paper competition, a Lehigh Faculty Innovation Grant and multiple National Science Foundation grants, she holds a PhD and a MS from MIT as well as a diplome d’ingenieur from the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Mines de Paris in France, and is a Certified Healthcare Financial Professional.