Seigal earned her bachelor's degree (BA honors) from
Emmanuel College,
University of Cambridge in 2013, scoring 1st class, top 10 in the
Mathematical Tripos. She earned her master's degree (MMath, 2014) there earning an honours pass with distinction on Part III of the Mathematical Tripos. Her Master's essay,
Iwasawa Theory of Elliptic Curves with Complex Multiplication, was supervised by
John H. Coates. Seigal earned her PhD in
Mathematics from
UC Berkeley in 2019. Her dissertation,
Structured Tensors and the Geometry of Data, was supervised by
Bernd Sturmfels. It investigates the algebraic theory of tensors and algorithms for tensor data. At
University of Oxford she is a Junior Research Fellow in
The Queen's College and Hooke Research Fellow in the Mathematical Institute. ==Awards and honors==