She has held this position since September 2012. Prior to that, she was a Post-Doctoral Research Associate at the University of Washington, working with Dan Suciu. Alexandra received her PhD and MS degrees from the Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences Department at the University of California, Berkeley, in 2009 and 2005 respectively. She is the recipient of an ACM SIGMOD Research Highlight Award, an ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award, an NSF CAREER Award, a Google Faculty Research Award, and a Siebel Scholarship. Her research interests are in the area of data and information management, with a current emphasis on provenance, causality, and reverse data management.