Nicole graduated in 2015 with her BS in Electrical and Computer Engineering. She participated as a member of the 2013 CAT Vehicle REU Site, and continued her work in the lab from 2013-2015 in the area of control systems for autonomous vehicles. She was also an officer of the IEEE at UA, and served as an undergraduate lab assistant for the ECE 275 (Computer Programming II) course in 2014F. She left UA to pursue a graduate degree at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.