She received her PhD from Stanford University in 2001. Her current work includes research on link mining, statistical relational learning and representing uncertainty in structured and semi-structured data. Her work in these areas has been supported by NSF, NGA, KDD, ARL and DARPA. In June 2006, she co-organized the fourth in a series of successful workshops on statistical relational learning, http://www.cs.umd.edu/projects/srl2006/. She has published numerous articles in machine learning, data mining, database and AI forums. She was one of 11 finalists choosen nationally for the 2005 Microsoft New Faculty Award. She is a member of AAAI Executive council, is on the editorial board of the Machine Learning Journal, is a JAIR associate editor and has served on numerous program committees including AAAI, ICML, IJCAI, KDD, SIGMOD, UAI, VLDB, and WWW.