Her research spans different areas in NLP and AI, focusing on developing general-purpose machine learning algorithms that can solve diverse NLP tasks. Applications for these algorithms include question answering, representation learning, green AI, knowledge extraction, and conversational dialogue. Honors include the NSF CAREER Award, Sloan Fellowship, Allen Distinguished Investigator Award, Intel rising star award, best paper and honorable mention awards, and several industry research faculty awards.

Recent awards:
NSF CAREER award
Sloan Fellowship
Intel Rising Star Faculty Award
Allen Distinguished Investigator Award
Research faculty awards: Amazon, Facebook, Google, Samsung GRO, Bloomberg