Her primary research focus is on data mining and large database systems, particularly for software engineering data. She was co-organizer of the 2006 WoPDaSD workshop at the International Conference on Software Engineering (along with Gregorio Robles and Jesus Gonzalez-Barahona). She has published a number of papers on tools for analyzing open source projects, and has spoken about open source data collection at such diverse events as the Mining Software Repositories workshop at ICSE and the O'Reilly Open Source Convention. She has a PhD in computer science from Nova Southeastern University.