Career
She is notable for having discovered four exoplanets before she turned 30 years old, including Kepler-19c, using transit-timing variation. As an undergraduate, she started out as a gender studies major at the University of California, Berkeley. She completed a bachelor"s degree from Berkeley in astrophysics in 2007, with highest distinction, with a minor in physics.
She did her graduate studies at Harvard University, completing a doctorate in astronomy and astrophysics in 2012 under the supervision of David Charbonneau.
She has written and conducted workshops on impostor syndrome. She was awarded a National Aeronautics and Space Administration Carl Sagan Postdoctoral Fellowship to study at University of Washington.
And in 2015 was awarded a Women in Science Fellows postdoctoral fellowship by L"Oréal United States of America to continue her studies at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
