in Computer Science, both from Columbia University, which she earned before returning for her Ph.D.[8][9] Prior to her research career, Wilcox was a Staff Software Engineer at IBM in Austin, Texas and was recognized as an Early Tenure Inventor.

[8] After completing her Ph.D., Wilcox joined the Georgia Institute of Technology School of Interactive Computing and was promoted to associate professor with tenure in April 2020.

[10] She is a Senior Staff Research Scientist and Group Manager in Responsible AI and Human-Centered Technology at Google.

[16][17][18] Since the publication of the blog post, there have been examples of computing conferences requiring authors to submit statements on the broader impacts of their contributions.

[19][20] Wilcox joined Google in 2019, where she contributed to one of the first published studies examining the use of a deep learning-based AI system in patient care.