Her research interests are information retrieval, data mining, machine learning, and spatial and temporal analytics. She did her PhD at the Department of Computer and Information Science, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). She was a postdoctoral researcher at the L3S Research Center Hannover, Germany. At L3S, she worked in several research projects, e.g., 1) EU Project ForgetIT: Concise Preservation by Combining Managed Forgetting and Contextualized Remembering, 2) ALEXANDRIA, an ERC Advanced Grant Project on Foundations for Temporal Retrieval, Exploration and Analytics in Web Archives, and 3) Medical Ecosystem: Personalized Event­based Surveillance. She has published her research work in top­tier conferences, e.g., SIGIR, WSDM, CIKM, JCDL and ECIR.