She received her PhD from the Computer Science Department at Carnegie Mellon University. Her research interests are algorithmic problems in graph mining, focusing on patterns and anomalies, with applications to fraud and event detection. Dr. Akoglu's research has won 5 publication awards; Best Paper Runner-up at SIAM SDM 2016, Best Paper at SIAM SDM 2015, Best Paper at ADC 2014, Best Paper at PAKDD 2010, and Best Knowledge Discovery Paper at ECML/PKDD 2009. She is also a recipient of the NSF CAREER award (2015) and Army Research Office Young Investigator award (2013).