Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering and in the Genome Sciences Department, and Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and in the Department of Biomedical Informatics and Medical Education at the University of Washington. She completed her PhD in 2009 at Stanford University with Prof. Daphne Koller in the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. She was also working with Prof. Serafim Batzoglou and Prof. Andrew Ng. Before joining the UW in 2010, she was a visiting professor in the Computational Biology Department at Carnegie Mellon University. She has received the National Science Foundation CAREER Award and been named an American Cancer Society Research Scholar. She has major research grants from the American Cancer Society, the National Institutes of Health, and the National Science Foundation.