With over 125 publications and 7 patents issued/pending, she is a Fellow of the American Physical Society, the IEEE Photonics Society, and the Optical Society of America. At BU, she leads a department with 51 faculty members. In 2014, she established the Multiscale Laser Lithography Lab and is developing mechanical metamaterials for biological studies using a laser direct write technology. This research is one thrust of a recently established BU-led NSF Engineering Research Center (ERC), CELL-MET. She is interested in nanomechanics. One potential application of her research is in creating biomedical structures to repair tissues after a heart attack. She uses 3D printing technology to create micromechanical structures. In 2014, she established the Multiscale Laser Lithography Lab at Boston University. This facility houses a Direct Laser Writing tool to create 3D polymer structures at high resolution as well as systems to design and characterise samples.