She joined Northwestern in September 2008 after postdoctoral positions at Microsoft Research in Redmond, WA, USA and Centruum voor Wiskunde en Informatica (CWI) in Amsterdam, Netherlands. She received her Ph.D. from MIT 2005. She is a theoretical computer scientist by training, and is working currently working in algorithmic game theory where she uses economic and algorithmic techniques to understand social interactions in settings such as social networks, auctions, and two-sided matching. Nicole is now at Microsoft Research New England.