Her research involves developing new tools for analyzing and modeling of complex networks in cellular biology. She was a postdoctoral fellow at the Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute in Toronto working under the supervision of Prof. Jeff Wrana. She completed her Ph.D. in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Toronto in 2005 under the supervision of Prof. Derek Corneil and Prof. Igor Jurisica. She received her M.Sc. from the same department in 2000 and her B.Sc. in Mathematics and Computing Science from Simon Fraser University, BC, Canada in 1997 after starting at the Department of Mathematics of the University of Belgrade in Yugoslavia. She spent two years in industry working for Hughes Aircraft, Westech Information Systems (subsidiary of BC Hydro, Vancouver, Canada), and IBM.