She received her PhD in Computational Media Design (CMD), with a specialization in Human-Computer Interaction and Interaction Design from the University of Calgary in 2014. Since completing her PhD, she has been a Postdoctoral Fellow that was funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and German Federal Ministry of Education and Research, as well as a Lecturer of Industrial Design at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She also works as a user experience researcher and interaction design consultant.