She is also a research associate at Johns Hopkins University’s Human Language Technology Center of Excellence. She received her PhD in Computer Science from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Her research interests include information retrieval and natural language processing, specifically applied to the problem of creating structured knowledge from unstructured text, as well as applying techniques from these fields to software engineering problems. Dr. Lawrie has served as general chair and program chair of the International Working Conference on Source Code Analysis and Manipulation as well as on organizing committees and program committees of several international conferences.