She completed her PhD at MIT and her MSc as a Marshall Scholar at the University of Cambridge. Her core research in machine learning, computational statistics, and data science is inspired by---and often applied to---the objective of accelerating scientific progress and practical impact in healthcare and other domains. She was an NSF CI-TRaCS Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for Biomedical Informatics at Harvard Medical School, a recipient of the IEEE Intelligent Systems "AI's 10 to Watch" Award in 2013, and was selected as one of IJCAI's Early Career spotlights in 2016.