She also holds a research fellow position at MIT's AgeLab. She received her B.S. in mechanical engineering from Bogazici University in 2001, her M.S. (2004) and Ph.D. (2007) in industrial engineering, and her M.S. in statistics (2007) from the University of Iowa. Before joining the University of Toronto faculty, she spent two years as a postdoctoral associate at the Humans and Automation Laboratory, MIT.