Before that, she was a research scientist from 2011 to 2016 and a Postdoctoral Fellow from 2010 to 2011, both at the SCI Institute. She received her Ph.D. in Computer Science from Duke University in 2010. There, she also earned a certificate in Computational Biology and Bioinformatics. Her research interests include data analysis and data visualization, computational topology, computational geometry, computational biology and bioinformatics, machine learning and data mining.