She received her Business Economics degree and her Ph.D. in Management Science from UCLA. Her current research interests include use and evaluation of technology to improve teaching, assessing the effectiveness of internal controls over spreadsheets for complying with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, best practices for OR/MS spreadsheet modeling, and supply chain management. She has been published in journals such as INFORMS Transactions on Education, OR Insight, Interfaces, and Journal of Financial Education along with articles for various encyclopedias and conference proceedings.