Her research focuses on music and multimedia information retrieval. Digital cultural resources are among her special interests, and one of her long-term goals has been to improve the accessibility of digital music recordings in multimedia archives. In 2011, she initiated and co-organized the International Workshop on Information Retrieval with User-Centered and Multi-Modal Strategies (MIRUM) at the ACM Multimedia conference, which grew into a dedicated submission area on Music, Speech and Audio in the main conference. Her honors include being selected as a Google European Doctoral Fellow. Recently, she also was chosen to participate in the Rising Stars Symposium at the ACM Multimedia (MM) 2016 conference.