Her research interests lie in the intersection of software engineering and programming languages, with a particular focus on software quality, testing, and automated error repair. She received her PhD and MS degrees from the University of Virginia in 2013 and 2009 respectively, and her BA in Computer Science from Harvard College in 2006. Her work on automatic program repair, the subject of this talk, won Gold and Bronze designations at the 2009 and 2012 ACM SIGEVO "Humies" awards for Human-Competitive Results Produced by Genetic and Evolutionary Computation, an ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award at the 2009 International Conference on Software Engineering, and a featured article designation in the Jan/Feb 2012 issue of the IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering.