She is a Distinguished Member of the Technical Staff in the Center for Computing Research at Sandia National Laboratories.
At Sandia, she is part of the development team for the Zoltan and Trilinos scientific computing packages.
[1][2] She earned her Ph.D. in 1994 from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute with Joseph E. Flaherty as her doctoral advisor.
Her dissertation was An Adaptive HP-Finite Element Method with Dynamic Load Balancing for the Solution of Hyperbolic Conservation Laws on Massively Parallel Computers.
[2] In 2018 she was elected chair of the Activity Group on Computational Science and Engineering (SIAG/CSE) of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics.