She works at the National Institute of Standards and Technology in the Applied and Computational Mathematics Division of the Information Technology Laboratory, where she contributes to the Digital Library of Mathematical Functions as the Visualization Editor and the principal designer of visualizations and graphs.
[4] From 2004 to 2009, she was on the selection committee for the Etta Z. Falconer Lecture (sponsored by the MAA and the Association for Women in Mathematics AWM).
[5] The National Association of Mathematicians chose Saunders to give the 2001 Claytor Lecture at the Joint Mathematics Meetings.
[1] The US Department of Commerce awarded her research group a Gold Medal for Distinguished Scientific/Engineering Achievement in 2011, in recognition for her work in creating the online Digital Library of Mathematical Functions.
[1] Saunders will give the 2021 AWM-MAA Etta Zuber Falconer Lecture at MathFest 2021.