Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering and Department of Statistics at the University of Washington, and is the Amazon Professor of Machine Learning. She received an S.B. in 2004 and Ph.D. in 2009 from the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). She has been awarded a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE, 2017), Sloan Research Fellowship (2015), ONR Young Investigator award (2015), NSF CAREER award (2014), National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate (NDSEG) Fellowship, NSF Graduate Research Fellowship, NSF Mathematical Sciences Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, Leonard J. Savage Thesis Award in Applied Methodology (2009), and MIT EECS Jin-Au Kong Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Prize (2009). Her research interests are in large-scale Bayesian dynamic modeling and computations.