[1][4] Grauman studied computer science at Boston College, graduating summa cum laude in 2001.
She joined Massachusetts Institute of Technology for her postgraduate studies, earning a Master of Science degree in 2003[5] followed by a PhD in 2006 supervised by Trevor Darrell.
[2][6][3] During her PhD Grauman worked as a research intern at Intel and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
In 2007 Grauman was appointed Clare Boothe Luce Assistant Professor at University of Texas at Austin.
[16][17] She has developed several patents for machine learning; including pyramid match kernel methods[6] and a technique to efficiently identifying images.