Olhede earned a master's degree from
Imperial College London in 2000, and completed her doctorate there in 2003. Her dissertation,
Analysis via Time, Frequency and Scale of Nonstationary Signals, was supervised by Andrew T. Walden. She began her academic career as a lecturer in statistics at Imperial in 2002, and moved to
University College London as a professor in 2007. At University College London, she was also an honorary professor of computer science and an honorary senior research associate in mathematics. She became a professor at the Chair of Statistical Data Science at
EPFL in 2019. She was also a member of the Public Policy Commission of the
Law Society of England and Wales, and served as university liaison director for University College London at the
Alan Turing Institute for 2015–2016. == Research ==