Beneen is a third year undergraduate student at UC San Diego that is double majoring in NanoEngineering and Mathematics-Computer Science (class of 2026). She is engaged in undergraduate research on first-principles simulations of dynamic mechanical loss properties in the ATLAS Lab under Professor Tod Pascal. Beneen participated in the UC San Diego MRSEC 2023 RIMSE (Research Immersion Materials Science and Engineering) Summer School on Predictive Assembly (SSPA). She is interested in software engineering for research applications and novel technological innovations.