As a digital government scholar, her research focuses on the production, meaning and retrieval of public sector information. In 2012, she was the first U.S. citizen to be invited as a fellow with the Peter Pribilla Foundation at the Leipzig Graduate School of Management. The grant project report "Failure-driven innovation" was published as a book by Artop Press, Berlin Germany. She has served as an invited expert to the W3C E-Government Interest Group and the W3C Government Linked Data Working Group. She currently is leading a group of colleagues in her Political Informatics (Poli-Informatics) National Science Foundation grant which leverages open government data and computational analysis for the study of governance.