[2] After switching majors every year in the Honor's College at Michigan State University, she graduated in Zoology in 1978.
[3] While working at the University of Vermont, she entered graduate study in civil and environmental engineering there in 1993, and completed her Ph.D. in 1997, under the supervision of David E. Dougherty.
[3] Eppstein's research involves the computational modeling of complex systems in various application domains.
It has included studies of the foraging strategies of antlions,[HH] the use of ground-penetrating radar to measure soil moisture,[ED] the reconstruction of 3d structure from fluorescence,[EHGS][GZES] the prediction of cascading failures in electric power transmission,[EH] and the popularity of plug-in hybrid vehicles.
[EGMR] Her work on fluorescence tomography[GZES] won the 2004 Sylvia Sorkin Greenfield Award of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine.