Her research interests include Value-based Software Engineering, Requirements Traceability, and Process Models. She is Associate Director of the Institute of Software Engineering in Chicago, and director of the DePaul Center for Applied Requirements. She has published peer reviewed papers on requirements traceability and software development and recently coauthored the book "Software by Numbers: Low-risk, High-Return Development", which describes a financially informed approach to software development. Dr.Cleland-Huang is a member of the IEEE Computer Society and has a PhD from the University of Illinois at Chicago.