She received her PhD in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University under the supervision of Avrim Blum. From October 2008 until July 2009, she was a postdoc at Microsoft Research, New England. Her main research interests are computational and statistical machine learning, computational aspects in economics and game theory, and algorithms. She is a recipient of the Carnegie Mellon University SCS Distinguished Dissertation Award and the National Science Foundation NSF CAREER Award.