During her undergraduate career, Bumb was recognized with the Helen E. Grenga Outstanding Woman Engineer and the E. Jo Baker President's Scholar Awards.

[6] She conducted research focused on tracking quantum dots in bone and cartilage while also being an active leader in various campus organizations.

Bumb also founded her own biotech company, Bikanta[citation needed], which uses nanodiamonds to allow academics and doctors to study and address disease at the cellular level.

[11] As Bikanta prepared to move the technology into clinical trials, the Theranos scandal went public and many investors pulled out of the diagnostics space.

[14] After Bikanta, Bumb began working as Health Science and Technology Advisor for the Secretary of State in the Office of Crisis Management and Strategy in December 2019, where she played a role in the government response to the COVID-19 pandemic.