Dr. Beck is the lead bioinformatician and research staff member in the AI and Cognitive Solutions team at IBM Research - Almaden. She has over ten years of experience in biomedical and food-related research, including mechanistic studies of omega-3 fatty acids in tumorigenesis and anomaly detection for the microbiome. Her work takes a multi-omics approach for large scale analysis of genomics, transcriptomics, and the microbiome. Currently, Dr. Beck leads the IBM Functional Genomics Platform team in development of a repository of over 300 million sequences describing microbial life from genotype to phenotype. Dr. Beck is an advocate for inclusivity in STEM and an active volunteer in many initiatives empowering young researchers. She received a Ph.D. in biochemistry, molecular, cellular, and developmental biology with a designated emphasis in biotechnology from the University of California, Davis.