Systems Engineering and as the Associate Director for the Institute for Advanced Systems Engineering at the University of Connecticut. She currently teaches graduate-level engineering courses in model-based systems engineering and systems engineering fundamentals, and coordinates the online graduate programs in Advanced Systems Engineering for the UConn IASE. Prior to joining UConn, she received her B.S. in Industrial Engineering, M.S. in Manufacturing Engineering, and Ph.D. in Industrial and Systems from the University of Rhode Island. Prior to entering graduate school, she worked in industry as a manufacturing engineer, process engineer, and production maintenance supervisor, and led efforts to develop and scaleup new production facilities and production lines. Her current research portfolio includes the application of model-based systems engineering for the design and optimization of complex systems, model-based fault detection and diagnostics (FDD) for HVAC-R systems; design of smart manufacturing systems, facilities, and buildings; supply chain design; and undergraduate, graduate, and online systems engineering education development and assessment. In 2018, she started the SmartBuildings CT program at UConn with funding from Eversource and the United Illuminating Company. She is part of the leadership team at the University of Connecticut that leads the newly awarded US Department of Energy's Southern New England Industrial Assessment Center and that offers no-charge energy audits to 20 manufacturing facilities in CT each year to help them lower their energy usage and costs. Dr. Thompson was the recipient of the US EPA Environment Merit Award, Region 1 (2017).