Dr Killedar has a PhD in Astrophysics from the University of Sydney and spent a few years in Italy and Germany conducting postdoctoral research in gravitational lensing, cosmology, and astrostatistics.
She has also worked as a computational modeller within the public health field at the Centre for Population Health at the Burnet Institute, while holding an Adjunct Lectureship at Monash University. She then led a small team of data scientists consulting with academics and research students while at the Sydney Informatics Hub of the University of Sydney.