She received her bachelors degree from McGill University in 1985 and her PhD in computer science from the University of Massachusetts in 1994. In 2001 she served as program co-chair for the International Conference on Machine Learning. Currently she is an associate editor of the Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research and serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Machine Learning Research. She has worked in the areas of intrusion detection, hardware support for security, anomaly detection in networks, classifier formation, and feature selection for unsupervised learning. Prof Brodley has taught undergraduate computer security classes at Purdue and graduate classes on data mining and machine learning.