She received her PhD from the School of Criminal Justice at Rutgers University in May 2012. Her PhD research explored cybercrimes against critical infrastructures. A nation’s critical infrastructure includes those socio-economic entities (transportation, telecommunications, power plants, water supply systems, emergency services) that are crucial to its everyday functioning and security. With the proliferation of technology, critical infrastructures have become computerized and interconnected, making them vulnerable to cybercrimes that compromise, alter, and/or steal sensitive data. Her interests in critical infrastructure research include offender decision-making, dynamic crime scripts, and criminal organization and operation.