She received her Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Maryland College Park. Her research focuses on developing data mining and machine learning algorithms for biomedical data. In collaboration with researchers and medical doctors at the University of Massachusetts Medical School and Boston College, she has conducted research in a variety of clinical domains including gastrointestinal cancers, sleep disorders, and stroke. A major emphasis of her work has be en on developing techniques that are able to automatically discover patterns across a wide spectrum of patient data. In addition to her tenured faculty position in the Dept. of Computer Science, she is a core faculty member of the WPI Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Program, the Data Science Program, and the Healthcare Delivery Institute (HDI). ... More >>