In 1998, she became a formal Member of Technical Staff at Bell Labs and in 2002 she was named a Distinguished Member of Technical Staff, in part due to her work on the development of the quantum cascade laser.
1998年成为正式的贝尔实验室的技术人员，并在2002年被评为杰出会员，部分是由于她在发展量子级联激光器方面的工作。