Lalana is a Principal Research Scientist at MIT CSAIL and leads the Decentralized Information Group (DIG). She is also a Web Science Research Institute Research Fellow and an Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Web Semantics. Her research focuses on modeling how social norms and legal rules work in society in order to automate the compliance of policy in information systems. She is currently exploring various facets of information management and policy, such as the development of new paradigms for exploring and integrating distributed data, privacy aware analysis of Big (Linked) Data, and accessibility of mobile apps.