Megan is an assistant professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Illinois. Her work involves developing multiscale computational models to explore the impacts of a changing environment on plants and to identify engineering strategies for improving plant development and growth. She has used mechanistic and data-driven approaches to develop models describing plant processes at regulatory, metabolic, and physiological scales. Megan earned her bachelor's, master's, and doctorate in electrical engineering from North Carolina State University.