She specializes in magnetic bearing, rotor dynamic, and health monitoring research topics. She has six years of professional engineering experience and her background is in various aspects of turbomachinery engineering. She is a member of the Virginia Tech Rotor Dynamics Laboratory and the Virginia Tech Center for Intelligent Materials and Smart Structures. In 2003-2004, she acted as an education consultant through Virginia Tech to Sweet Briar College to help facilitate a new engineering program at this all-women liberal arts college. She received an NSF CAREER award in 1998 and the Virginia Tech College of Engineering Outstanding New Assistant Professor Award in 2000.