She received her PhD in Computer Science in 2008 and her Masters in Mathematics in 2005, both from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; in 2011, she was a Visiting Research Professor at Saarland University. She was the recipient of an NSF CAREER award as well as an NSF graduate research fellowship. Her primary research interests focus on computational topology and geometry, as well as combinatorics and combinatorial algorithms. Future Students