Joy is a reliability engineering Ph.D. candidate at rise lab, having earned her M.S. in reliability engineering in 2023, and a B.S. in mechanical engineering with a nuclear engineering minor in 2018 at the University of Maryland at College Park. Her research at university focuses on external flood probabilistic risk assessment (PRA), particularly in developing hybrid PRA frameworks that leverage Bayesian networks, Monte Carlo simulation with event trees and fault trees to model flood risks.

In addition to her work at University, she has worked at NIST’s Center for Neutron Research (NCNR) as a guest researcher in radiation physics and as a part time mechanical engineer in the reactor operations and engineering (ROE) group since 2019. She has now transitioned from her part-time position to a full-time reliability engineer in the ROE group, performing risk and reliability analyses for the NCNR’s research reactor and pre-conceptual design of a new neutron source.

Her hobbies include hiking with her dogs and practicing new languages.