She took her oath of office on April 6, 2021, administered by the Chief of Staff of the United States Air Force, Gen. Charles Q.

She was appointed on August 31, 2020, and took her oath of office on September 24, 2020, administered by the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering, Michael Kratsios.

[8] She has acted as a senior advisor to the Director of the Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society (CITRIS) at UC Berkeley.

Prior to Atlas AI she served as the CTO of the Wikimedia Foundation, and had the responsibility for the technology infrastructure of Wikipedia.

She is also a former Defense Science Board member, the founding Chair of DARPA's Microsystems Exploratory Council, and an adviser to companies; including Lockheed Martin and Airbus.