Her research in computer vision and machine learning focuses on visual search and object recognition. Before joining UT Austin in 2007, she received her Ph.D. from MIT. She is a Sloan Research Fellow and recipient of NSF CAREER, ONR Young Investigator, PAMI Young Researcher, and PECASE awards, and the 2013 IJCAI Computers and Thought award. She and her collaborators were recognized with the CVPR Best Student Paper Award in 2008 for their work on hashing algorithms for large-scale image retrieval, the Marr Best Paper Prize at ICCV in 2011 for their work on modeling relative visual attributes, and the Best Application Paper Award at ACCV in 2016 for their work on automatic cinematography in 360 degree video. She serves as an associate editor in chief for Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI) and served as a program chair of CVPR 2015 in Boston.