In Fall 2013 she is joining Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute as an associate professor and the Edward G. Hamilton Development Chair in Computer Science. Her research interests focus on natural language processing, especially on cross-source information extraction and knowledge base population. Ji has a PhD in computer science from New York University. She received a Google Research Award in 2009, an NSF CAREER award in 2010, and the Sloan Junior Faculty award and IBM Watson Faculty award in 2012.