Her research focuses on linguistic and language-inclusive sensing with text, speech, and multimodal data for broad impact domains. She is PI and program coordinator of an NSF-funded Research Experiences for Undergraduates Site in Computational Sensing. Dr. Alm completed her graduate studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, earning a doctoral degree in Linguistics in 2008. She is a founding director of the Computational Linguistics and Speech Processing lab group at Rochester Institute of Technology, and she is an active member of the scholarly community in this interdisciplinary field.