Quimby is a PhD student in the Neuroscience Graduate Group at UC Davis. She is co-mentored by Dr. Audrey Fan, in the departments of Biomedical Engineering and Neurology, and Dr. Christine Wu Nordahl at the MIND Institute. She received her bachelor's degree in Biochemistry and Cell Biology at UC San Diego, where she conducted research using eye-tracking as a prognostic tool for autism. After graduating, she worked on the ABCD study at SRI International and studied sleep in adolescence. Her current research evaluates non-invasive measures of cerebrovascular function using resting-state functional MRI in pediatric and autistic populations.