She works on data-driven solutions to problems that span from the nature of explosions in the sky to delays in the justice system. She studies lightcurves, time series of light, in astronomy to understand stellar evolution and cosmology, and in the urban environment at the Urban Observatory, where the study of urban lightcurves enables sociological, ecologic, economic inference.
She is Deputy Project Scientist for Rubin Observatory, the largest ground-based optical astrophysical facility ever built which in 2025 will start a 10-year survey of the southern hemisphere sky destined to deliver the largest database of astrophysical object and phenomena to date, the Legacy Survey of Space and Time. She is TED 2019 fellow. Watch her 2019 TED talk!