[2] Previously she was executive director of the Georgia Tech Institute of Data Engineering and Science (IDEaS) that she co-founded,[3] director of the Algorithms and Randomness Center,[4] and served as the ADVANCE Professor of Computing.
Her research areas include combinatorics, computational aspects of statistical mechanics, Monte Carlo stimulation of Markov chains, randomized algorithms and programmable active matter.
One of her important contributions to this area is a decomposition theorem for analyzing Markov chains.
[citation needed] In 2012 she became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.
[8] She delivered the Arnold Ross Lecture on October 29, 2009, an honor previously conferred on Barry Mazur, Elwyn Berlekamp, Ken Ribet, Manjul Bhargava, David Kelly and Paul Sally.