She received her PhD from Princeton University in 2010, her Master of Art from Princeton University in 2003, a Master of Science in Advanced Architectural Design from Columbia University in 1996, and a Diploma in Architecture from the RTWH Aachen University, Germany, in 1995. She has taught at Columbia University, Princeton University and the University of Pennsylvania. Before joining Dassault Systemes she was an Associate Professor of Architecture at the GSD, Harvard University, where as a designer and teacher of design, she deploys computation exploring its impacts on the concept, design and manufacturing of architecture and urban designs.