Gile grew up in Shrewsbury, Vermont, where her father Richard H. Gile was an engineer and businessman.[2]
She graduated in 1998 from the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, where she majored in electrical engineering with a minor in sociology.
After earning a master's degree in science and technology studies at Virginia Tech in 2000, she worked from 2000 to 2003 as Assistant Director of Research at Advocates for Human Potential, Inc.[3] In this period, she also continued to take graduate classes, delivered meals for the poor and taught mathematics to underprivileged girls.[1]
At the suggestion of an amateur rugby teammate and with the encouragement of a sociological theory professor, she returned to graduate school,[1][2] studying statistics at the University of Washington,
where she completed her doctorate in 2008.[3] Her dissertation, Inference from Partially-Observed Network Data, was supervised by Mark S. Handcock.[4]
After two years as a Postdoctoral Prize Research Fellow at Nuffield College, Oxford, she joined the UMass Amherst faculty in 2010.[3]
