Joy earned her B.S. degree in 2018 in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Maryland at College Park, along with a minor in Nuclear Engineering. After graduating, Joy began to work as an associate researcher at NIST’s Center for Neutron Research (NCNR) in the Radiation Physics and Reactor Operations and Engineering groups. From there, she enrolled as a PhD student in Reliability engineering in 2019 and joined the RISE lab. Her research focuses on fluid propagation and component failures in nuclear power plants during flooding events such as Fukushima. The research involves fragility function development and Bayesian networks.  Her hobbies include hiking, walking her dogs and watching scary movies.