She received her Ph.D. from Brown University in 2006 under the supervision of Jeffrey Hoffstein. After that, she held a position as a Moore Instructor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (postdoc, 2006-2009) and had visiting positions at the Institute for Advanced Studies (2006-2007 and 2009-2010) and MSRI (2011). Her research interests lie in the area of multiple Dirichlet series and arithmetic statistics. Her work combines techniques from analytic number theory, probability and arithmetic geometry and has been supported by two Simons Collaboration Grants.