She is also a part time faculty member in the Beckman Institute Artificial Intelligence group. Dr. Girju earned a B.Sc. from "Politehnica" University of Bucharest (1995) and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from University of Texas at Dallas (2002). Her research interests are in Artificial Intelligence and Natural Language Processing/Computational Linguistics with emphasis on computational semantics and its applications to question answering and textual inference.