She holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science and a MMath in Combinatorics and Optimization both from the University of Waterloo, Canada. Prior to her work at Stevens, she was a postdoctoral research associate in the Department of Operations Research and Financial Engineering at Princeton University, USA, and a senior quantitative risk analyst at the Royal Bank of Canada in Toronto, Canada. Her research and teaching interests include continuous optimization, stochastic optimization, machine learning, risk management, and quantitative finance.