Dr. Corcoran came to Lakeland in 2025 from Marquette University where she served as a graduate teaching assistant, teaching calculus and differential equations courses. She has also been part of numerous research fellowships and experiences, and conferences. In 2023, she was awarded Marquette University's Merrill Graduate Teaching Assistant Award.

She has interests in medical imaging, specifically Electrical Impedance Tomography, nonlinear solution methods, in particular Complex Geometrical Optics, incorporating a priori information into image reconstructions and machine learning classification techniques.

She has a bachelor's degree in mathematical sciences from Northland College and a master's and doctorate in computational mathematical and statistical sciences from Marquette University.