Her research focuses on natural language processing, particularly semantics and social media data. She received her PhD in Computer Science from New York University where she was a MacCracken fellow. She recently received the NSF CRII Award and CrowdFlower AI for Everyone Award. Previously, she was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Pennsylvania. She is organizing the International Workshop on Noisy User-generated Text, serving as a workshop co-chair for ACL 2017, an area chair for EMNLP 2016, 2018 and COLING 2018, and the publicity chair for NAACL 2016 and 2018. Her research group is currently supported by research funds from DARPA.