She also co-founded and co-directs the Transportable Agents Laboratory and the Dartmouth Center for Mobile Computing. Previously, she was a research associate and director of the Information Capture and Access project at Cornell University. She holds a PhD degree in computer science form Cornell University. Her research interests include distributed manipulation, 3d navigation, self-reconfiguring robotics, mobile agents, and information organization. She holds an NSF Career award and a Sloan award.