She has a Ph.D in Biomedical Informatics from Columbia University and a bachelors degree in both biology and computer science from Stony Brook State University. Her specific research interests include developing methods for fast, accurate, and meaningful ways of analyzing biological data. She has also collaborated with Burkhard Rost, head of the Unit for Computational Biology & Bioinformatics at the Department of Informatics of the Technical University of Munich (TUM). Stephen Burley, Director, CIPR