Deborah has done machine learning research at MIT, Harvard, and Google Brain. Her work in machine learning has spanned developing models of human perception to exploring medical data. She has been a teaching assistant for undergraduate classes at MIT, graduate classes at Harvard, and the Boston Python Workshop. Before working in machine learning, she did education research and taught in Cambodia as a Fulbright Scholar. She has spoken at PyTennessee, SciPy Conference, AI With the Best, QConNY, and PyCon US.