Slonim majored in computer science at
Yale University, graduating in 1990. After receiving a master's degree in computer science from the
University of California, Berkeley, in 1991, she completed her Ph.D. at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1996. Her dissertation,
Learning from Imperfect Data in Theory and Practice, concerned
computational learning theory, and was supervised by
Ron Rivest. She became a researcher at the
Whitehead Institute Center for Genome Research from 1996 to 2000, and for
Wyeth in the former
Genetics Institute from 2000 to 2004. In 2005 she returned to academia as an associate professor of computer science at Tufts University; she was promoted to full professor in 2016. She has also held visiting positions at
Boston Children's Hospital and the
Broad Institute. ==Recognition==