Kelly is a 3rd year PhD student in the Animal Behavior Graduate Group at the University of California Davis. Her advisor is Dr. Brenda McCowan of the school of Veterinary Medicine, and she also collaborates with Dr. Eliza Bliss-Moreau from the Psychology Department, Dr. Raissa D’Souza and Dr. Jim Crutchfield of the Complexity Sciences Center, and Dr. Andrew MacIntosh of Kyoto University.