Her work bridges the histories of science, computing, and cybernetics with design. She has held numerous visiting scholar positions including at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin, IKKM Weimar, and at Duke University. She is currently working on two projects. The first is a history of automation, intelligence, and freedom; the second project examines extreme infrastructures and the history of experimentation at planetary scales in design, science, and engineering.

She has also published widely in many venues including Critical Inquiry, Grey Room, Journal of Visual Culture, and E-Flux. Her first book Beautiful Data: A History of Vision and Reason (Duke UP 2015) investigates histories of big data, design, and governmentality.

She was previously Associate Professor of Strategic Hire in Interactive Design, Department of Sociology & Anthropology at Concordia University in Montreal, Canada, Assistant Professor in History & Media Studies at the New School for Social Research and Eugene Lang College in New York City, and has also been a fellow at the Institute for Public Knowledge at New York University as part of the Poiesis Fellowship, and at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin, Germany.

She completed her PhD in History of Science at Harvard University (2006) and received a Post-Doctoral Fellowship at the John Hope Franklin Center at Duke University (2007-08).