She received her Ph.D. degree in Mechanical Engineering from Villanova University and her M.s and B.S degrees in Mechanical Engineering from K.N.Toosi University of Technology, Tehran in Iran. She started her engineering career serving as an equipment and piping designer in oil and refinery plants at Sazeh Consultants Engineering and Construction in Tehran, Iran. She left industry work after 3 years to continue her higher education and performed experimental, numerical Thermo-Fluid research at the Laboratory for Advanced Thermal and Fluid Systems at Villanova University.