She obtained her M.S. in Operations Research and Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering from H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and System Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology. She has done research in several fields in Statistics, including design and analysis of experiments, design of computer experiments, multivariate interpolation methods, meta-modeling methods, engineering statistics, etc. Currently she is focusing on Uncertainty Quantification field which is a new inter-discipline combining engineering, statistics and applied mathematics.