Kiley joined the Princeton Physics Department as a Dicke Fellow in Fall 2022. She works with the experimental high energy physics group and is a member of the CMS Experiment located at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN. Her research focuses on searching for new physics beyond the Standard Model, where she develops dedicated triggers and leverages novel machine learning approaches to enhance sensitivity to long-lived particles (LLPs) and other anomalous signatures. Kiley is also involved in the HL-LHC hardware upgrade for the CMS Outer Tracker and detector design for a muon collider. 

Kiley received her Ph.D. in Physics from Columbia University, where she worked on the ATLAS Experiment under the guidance of John Parsons. Her graduate work focused on hardware upgrades, commissioning, and operations of the Liquid Argon Calorimeter, as well as searching for LLPs with displaced and delayed photon signatures.

In addition to research, Kiley is involved with many science outreach and advocacy programs. She currently chairs the Government Relations Subcommittee of the US LHC Users Association and has served on its Executive Committee since 2021.