Her research is in the area of machine learning as it applies to biomedical data mining, and she is an active member of the biomedical text-mining research community. Prior to joining Queen’s University, she was an Informatics Research scientist with the Informatics Research group at Celera/Applied Biosystems, and before that a postdoctoral fellow at the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI). She has a PhD in Computer Science from Brown University, and an MSc and BSc in Computer Science from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem.