Dr. Kamyab is an internationally recognized scholar and has published articles , book chapters and a recent book entitled "unintended consequences of internationalization in higher education, Comparative international perspectives on the impacts of policy and practice", Routledge Publishing.

She's also the president of San Diego-Tijuana sister city society, a society within the San Diego International Sister City Association (SANDISCA) whose mission is to build a greater relationship between the US and Mexico through trans-border initiatives.

Dr. Kamyab holds a Ph.D. in Higher education administration and has been a faculty of international comparative education and teacher education at Chapman university and a university liaison and faculty of TESOL master program at University of San Diego. She's been visiting scholar and faculty in Latin America and the Middle East and North Africa.