Aisling received a B.A. in Communication Studies from Dublin City University in 1996 and an M.Sc. in Multimedia Systems from Trinity College, Dublin in 1998. She also received an M.S. in Media Arts and Sciences from the MIT Media Lab in 2001 and received her Ph.D. at the Media Lab in 2007. Aisling's work is engaged with revealing the power of the storytelling act as an expressive, reflective and cathartic experience as it is through this communicative process we come to understand ourselves as individual and social beings. As part of this investigation, she develops everyday software applications for creating and sharing rich-media story compositions. Aisling likes to describe herself as a storyteller/designer/hacker/ blogger/moviemaker kind of person.
Prior to her MIT studies, Aisling was the course co-ordinator for the M.Sc. in Multimedia Systems at Trinity College, Dublin and taught graduate courses in Multimedia Programming and Digital Video in the Computer Science Department and co-taught a graduate course in Music Technology and Programming in the Music and Media Technologies program in the Engineering department.