Her main research interests include computational vision, machine learning, cognitive neuroscience, and mental disorders. She obtained her Ph.D. from the University of California, Santa Cruz, followed by postdoctoral training at the California Institute of Technology. Prior to joining the University of Minnesota, she was an assistant professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Department of Ophthalmology at the National University of Singapore, and the principal investigator at the Visual Information Processing Lab.