She was awarded the British Computer Society Roger Needham Award for 2014 in recognition of the potential her research and work has to revolutionise health and pharmaceutics -- the award is given annually for a distinguished research contribution in computer science by a UK based researcher within ten years of their PhD.

She held a USA analogue to an ERC Starting Grant, a prestigious NSF CAREER Award, for the project titled "Tools for Analyzing, Modeling, and Comparing Protein-Protein Interaction Networks" in 2007-2011 at University of California Irvine. Her research has also been supported by other large governmental and industrial grants including those from GlaxoSmithKline, IBM and Google.