Her research interests include: music, game, and multimedia information seeking and retrieval, information organization and access, and knowledge representation. She is currently leading the GAMER (GAme MEtadata Research) group, focusing on creating a data model and metadata schema for video games and interactive media. She also worked on the Human Use of Music Information Retrieval Systems (HUMIRS) project at the International Music Information Retrieval Systems Evaluation Laboratory (IMIRSEL), investigating various aspects of users’ music information needs, uses, and seeking behaviors. She is a recipient of the Fulbright Award for Graduate Study as well as the Jean Tague-Sutcliffe Award and the Berner-Nash Memorial Award for her dissertation research. She holds an M.S. (2002) and a Ph.D. (2008) from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.