[1][2] For her undergraduate degree, Bliss attended the University of Missouri – Rolla (Missouri University of Science and Technology) from 1994 to 1998 and graduated summa cum laude with a Bachelor of Science in applied mathematics.
She attended North Carolina State University for her graduate studies, earning her Master of Science in applied mathematics in May 2000.
Under supervision of Harvey Banks and Hien Tran, she earned her PhD in Applied Mathematics in 2011 from North Carolina State University, with her dissertation on modeling red blood cells in kidney disease patients.
[4] As of 2018, Bliss is an associate professor in the department of Applied Mathematics and VCUR Programs Coordinator at Virginia Military Institute.
[1] In 2018, Bliss published a more advanced handbook titled, Math Modeling: Computing and Communicating with Benjamin J. Galluzzo, Kathleen R. Kavanagh, and Rachel Levy.