She is a professor of human genetics and of biostatistics, and executive associate dean, in the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health.
[1] Feingold graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1985, with an interdisciplinary bachelor's degree that combined mathematics, public policy, and English.
Her dissertation, Modeling a New Genetic Mapping Method, was supervised by David Siegmund.
[2][3] After her bachelor's degree, and continuing part-time into her graduate studies, she worked as a mathematician and statistician for the Pacific Gas and Electric Company.
After completing her doctorate she became an assistant professor of biostatistics at Emory University.