Bethany holds a Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Chicago, in Mathematics. The focus of which concentrated in theoretical computer science, particularly machine learning and probabilistic combinatorics. Her thesis and focus of research is concerned with how structural constraints on information alter the behavior of learning systems and was directed under the advisement of Lev Reyzin. 

In addition to mathematical pursuits, Bethany is also a new media artist, a formal artist statement detailing her practice follows. 

I use my own image, voice, and body as raw material to ask how the self is shaped, surveilled, inherited, and buried by technology, capitalism, family, and death. Drawing on my background as a researcher in machine learning, I devise algorithmic networks to process self. 

I animate digital doubles of myself, exploring identity in directing a fictionalized character. Printing the frames from my self-animations and footage of myself onto 16mm leader, I create self from artifice. Code I write scrapes data from redacted government documents and uses it to hide footage of my own life, turning concealment, a tool of power, on myself. 

I build technological systems to reach relationships that can no longer answer. I reanimated a conversation with my dead father, inviting the earth that separates us to become a conduit for action. I transmitted sound through the ground encasing him, captured this soil-soaked echo with geophones, creating an artificial conversational loop, to renew our relationship.