In her research, she develops theoretical tools to address problems in data privacy and to understand individual incentives in other complex settings. She received her PhD from Carnegie Mellon University in 2009 and was a postdoctoral fellow at Cornell University before joining the California Institute of Technology in 2011. She is a recipient of the AT&T Labs Graduate Research Fellowship, the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship, the CIFellows Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, the NSF Mathematical Sciences Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, and an NSF CAREER award. Michael Milford