She received her PhD in Computer Science from the University of Manchester in 2005. Before coming to the Erasmus University, she worked in the Algorithmics group at TU Delft, the Computational Intelligence group at TU Clausthal, and the Department of Computer Science at the University of Maryland. Her research interests lie in the areas of Game Theory and Artificial Intelligence. In particular, she is interested in auctions, algorithmic mechanism design, machine learning/data mining, and multi-agent optimization and coordination.