She has a B.S. in Computer Engineering and Physics from the University of Washington, a M.Sc. in Neuroscience from the University of Oxford, and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She completed postdoctoral training at the University of California, Berkeley. She has received a Rhodes Scholarship and a National Science Foundation postdoctoral fellowship, and she recently was selected as a Microsoft Research Faculty Fellow. Her research lies in artificial intelligence and machine learning, where she focuses on novel automatic methods to make good sequences of decisions under uncertainty. Brunskill is particularly interested in applications of this work to intelligent tutoring systems and health care. She also is interested in how information technology can help address challenges that arise in low-resource areas.