She received her PhD in mechanical engineering from the University of California, Berkeley in 2012 and was a postdoctoral researcher in the Power Systems Laboratory at ETH Zurich, Switzerland from 2012 to 2103 before starting at UM in January 2014. Her research focuses on ways to reduce the environmental impact, cost, and inefficiency of electric power systems via new operational and control strategies. She is particularly interested in developing new methods to actively engage distributed flexible resources such as energy storage, electric loads, and distributed renewable resources in power system operation.