She joined the UW faculty in 2010 to teach in the Master of Science in Computational Linguistics program. Her primary interest is spoken language processing, with a focus on the role of intonation in speech understanding. She has led National Science Foundation-funded projects investigating tone and intonation, multi-modal and multi-cultural interaction, and expression of stance and attitude in conversational speech. Prior to joining the UW, she served as a research fellow at the University of Manchester and on the faculty of the Department of Computer Science at the University of Chicago. She also received an Office of Naval Research graduate fellowship. Levow earned her Ph.D. at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.