She is the founder, president, and chief scientist at Lunabots LLC. Since 2005, she has worked closely with meteorologists at the School of Meteorology, the National Severe Storms Laboratory, and the National Center for Atmospheric Research to develop machine learning and data mining techniques that will fundamentally transform scientists' understanding and prediction of severe weather phenomena. These techniques have proven very successful. She has experience developing and applying these techniques to robotics applications. Amy also coaches kids through First Lego League and Botball. Amy earned her PhD from the University of Massachusetts Amherst and her BS (honors) from Carnegie Mellon University. She has numerous peer-reviewed publications demonstrating the success of these techniques.