Dr. Cote is an Assistant Professor in Materials Science & Engineering at WPI. She received her B.S. from the University of New Hampshire in Chemical Engineering and M.S. and Ph.D. in Materials Science & Engineering from WPI. She also worked as a research engineer at Saint-Gobain High Performance Materials in the Polymer Characterization research group.

Her current research involves:

- Computational thermodynamic and kinetic modeling

- Rapidly solidified materials, with a focus on Al powder alloys (feedstock for AM)

- Solid state additive manufacturing - specifically cold spray processing and characterization

- Database development to aid in integrated computational materials science and materials processing