She was as an NSF Presidential Young Investigator in Software Engineering, and has published about 90 refereed papers in collaborative work, software development environments, software process, extended transaction models, object-oriented languages and databases, and parallel and distributed systems. Prof. Kaiser is an associate editor of the ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology and has served on about 25 program committees. She received her PhD and MS from CMU and her ScB from MIT.