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. This work 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 renegotiate the body in a society legislated by relentless surveillance infrastructure, one that forces our submission and denies us ritual. Using myself as medium, I iterate processes recovering a new self transformed through data loss. My obsession with disgust guides my practice, the raw, uncomfortable experience of having a body. I frame abjection as a space to reckon with the terror of living, a terror now haunted by digital record and an algorithmic voyeur who cudgels us into a pre-determined template. In directing digital doubles of myself, creating data-driven filters over myself, and building technological systems to ritualize and speak to the dead, I reclaim my body. My body has been digested by thousands of algorithms whose data is sold every day. By mirroring this technology, I expose it.