A Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) Investigator since 2021, she was previously a professor at Columbia Department of Biological Sciences.

She earned her master's degree under Avi Widgerson, and carried out her PhD research in the lab of Nir Friedman.

[8][9][10] Her fellowship focused on how genetic variation changes the regulatory network between individuals and how this subsequently manifests in phenotypic diversity.

In her postdoctoral work, she used this framework to study protein signaling networks in multivariate flow cytometry data.

[24] In 2020, the Pe'er and Fabian Theis groups presented CellRank, an algorithm that uncovers cellular dynamics by combining trajectories based on cell-cell similarity with local RNA velocity information, which identifies nascent transcriptional states by the proportion of spliced-to-unspliced RNA transcripts.