[1] She is a senior instructor in electrical engineering and computer science at Oregon State University.
[3] After earning a bachelor's degree in computer science in 1997,[2] she went to Cornell University for graduate study in natural language processing,[3] and became part of a team of students who participated in a NASA competition on engineering support for human exploration of Mars.
[2] Her doctoral dissertation, Intelligent Clustering with Instance-Level Constraints, was supervised by Claire Cardie.
[2] During this time she also returned to graduate study for a master's degree in geological sciences from the University of Southern California in 2008,[2] advised by Frank Corsetti,[6] and a master's degree in library and information science from San Jose State University in 2017.
[8] She is a two-time recipient of the NASA Exceptional Technology Achievement Medal, in 2012 and 2020,[2] and was elected as an AAAI Fellow in 2023.