She is also the Director of the Software Reliability Engineering Curriculum initiated in 1996 at the University of Maryland under the sponsorship of the National Security Agency. She holds her Ph.D. from the Ecole Polytechnique, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Belgique, and is the author of more than 50 scientific publications in the fields of Software Reliability, Software Testing, Dynamic Probabilistic Risk Assessment and Risk Assessment.