Dr. Bender has a been a member of the faculty at the University of Washington since 2003. She is currently a Professor in the Department of Linguistics, an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, the faculty director of the CLMS program, and the director of the Computational Linguistics Laboratory. Prior to coming to UW, she held temporary positions at Stanford University and UC Berkeley, and worked in industry at YY Technologies. She received her PhD from the Linguistics Department at Stanford University, where she joined the HPSG and LinGO projects at CSLI. Her AB (also in Linguistics) is from UC Berkeley, and she has also studied at Tohoku University in Sendai, Japan.