Previously she has held postdoctoral positions at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems in Tübingen, Germany, as well as at the Department of Machine Learning of Carnegie Mellon University and at Georgia Tech, USA. She also spent a semester as a Simons-Berkeley fellow at the Simons Institute, Berkeley, in spring 2017. She received her PhD in Computer Science from the University of Waterloo, Canada, for a thesis in machine learning theory.