Boeing Department of Aeronautics & Astronautics at the University of Washington. She is the recipient of the Distinguished Graduate Student Award for Excellence in Doctoral Research and is an Associate Member of the AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Technical Committee. Her research interests are in nonlinear control theory, singular perturbation methods, and flight mechanics with key emphasis on real-time implementable solutions for control of nonminimum phase, interconnected systems, and nonaffine aerospace applications.