 After postdoctoral research at Stanford University with Emmanuel Candès, she returned to the University of Chicago as a faculty member.She won a Sloan Research Fellowship in 2016.In 2017 the Institute of Mathematical Statistics gave her their Tweedie New Researcher Award "for groundbreaking contributions in high-dimensional statistics, including the identifiability of graphical models, low-rank matrix estimation, and false discovery rate theory ... [and] development of the knockoff filter for controlled variable selection".