Feingold graduated from the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1985, with an interdisciplinary bachelor's degree that combined mathematics, public policy, and English. She completed a Ph.D. in statistics at
Stanford University in 1993. Her dissertation,
Modeling a New Genetic Mapping Method, was supervised by
David Siegmund. After her bachelor's degree, and continuing part-time into her graduate studies, she worked as a mathematician and statistician for the
Pacific Gas and Electric Company. After completing her doctorate she became an assistant professor of biostatistics at
Emory University. She moved to the
University of Pittsburgh in 1997, became a full professor and associate dean there in 2010, and was named executive associate dean in 2015. ==Recognition==