[3] Her dissertation, The Effectiveness and Efficiency of Agglomerative Hierarchic Clustering in Document Retrieval, was supervised by Gerard Salton.
[1] Prior to joining NIST she was a Senior Member of the Technical Staff at Siemens Corporate Research in Princeton, NJ, where her work on intelligent agents applied to information access resulted in numerous patents.
Voorhees was elected as an ACM Fellow in 2018 for "contributions in evaluation of information retrieval, question answering, and other language technologies".
She has published numerous articles on information retrieval techniques and evaluation methodologies and serves on the review boards of several journals and conferences.
[4] In 2023 Voorhees was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Science Degree from the University of Glasgow in recognition of her body of work in the evaluation of information retrieval, question answering, and other language technologies.