She holds a PhD (2009) and MSc (2005) in Computer Science (research area: Machine Learning), from Max-Planck Institute for Informatics, Germany and a BSc (2003) in Computer Science from University of Bucharest, Romania. Until 2014, Dr. Ifrim held a senior research fellow position with the Insight Centre for Data Analytics, University College Dublin, Ireland. Prior to that, she held postdoctoral positions with the Cork Constraint Computation Centre (2013), Ireland, and the Bioinformatics Research Centre (2010), Denmark.