Kant earned a bachelor's degree in mathematics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a Ph.D. in computer science from Stanford University.
[1][2] Her 1979 doctoral dissertation was Efficiency Considerations in Program Synthesis: A Knowledge-Based Approach.
[1][3] Kant was a computer science faculty member at Carnegie Mellon University in the early 1980s.
[4] As a researcher for Schlumberger in the 1980s and 1990s, she developed SciNapse, a tool for transforming mathematical models in hydrocarbon exploration into computer code.
She later founded SciComp, which developed a system for automatic programming in computational finance.