Her main area of research is artificial intelligence for which she has received recognition from various venues, including the Canadian Association of Computer Science/Associatation d'Informatique Outstanding Young Researcher Prize for 2015. She has also been involved in service and community building through her positions as a councilor for the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) (2011-2014), and board member for the International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (2010-2016), including serving as President (2013-2015).