She received her PhD in Computing Science from the University of Alberta, and has previously worked at the Australian National University and Temple University. She has served in the Senior Program Committees of AAAI 2016-18, IJCAI 2015-17 and ACML-17, and served as an Area Chair for IJCAI-18. She was a Program Co-chair for the Output Representation Learning workshops at NIPS-13 and NIPS-14, and the Heterogeneous Learning workshops at SDM-14 and SDM-15. Her research interests include machine learning, artificial intelligence, natural language processing, computer vision and bioinformatics. She has received a number of awards for her research, including best paper prizes at IJCAI and AAAI.