She leads the UW-BioNLP research group. Before joining UW, she worked as a researcher in industry and served on the advisory boards of several text mining startups. Her current research interests include statistical natural language processing, machine learning, and biomedical/clinical text mining. Dr. Yetisgen received her BS degree in Computer Engineering from Bilkent University (Ankara, Turkey) and MS degree in Computer Engineering from Middle East Technical University (Ankara, Turkey). She received her PhD from University of Washington with a thesis on automated hypothesis generation from biomedical literature.