She is affiliated with the Grainger Institute for Engineering and the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery. From 2014-2016, Po-Ling was an assistant professor in the statistics department at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. Po-Ling received an MS in computer science and a PhD in statistics from Berkeley in 2013 and 2014, and a BS in math with a minor in English from Caltech in 2009. She was the recipient of the 2014 Erich L. Lehmann Citation from the Berkeley statistics department for an outstanding PhD dissertation in theoretical statistics, and a best student paper award at the NIPS conference in 2012.