To the good, she does have a biophysics BS (from MIT), and some of her research unites the two fields (e.g. NLP data-gathering from big drug side effect databases).

To the bad, this looks an awful lot like "old physicist's disease". The tendency for CS and physics people to turn up dubious breakthroughs in other fields is so extreme that I'm instantly suspicious of this sort of result, especially when it claims to find a powerful connection no one else recognizes.

In her defense, a lot of people have recognized it for years.

People tend to think of autism in its mental aspects only but it always comes with gastrointestinal issues. There are a lot of kids who see fairly significant improvement from diet changes (most notably gluten free and casein free). When people started putting that together with the people who suffer from IBS and Celiac also needing to avoid gluten the connections started popping up. Gluten free turned to GMO wheat which led to round up and glyphosate.

On the pure autism side, people have talked about heavy metals (not just mercury) for well over a decade and aluminum has been high on the wonder list. When people realized that there was a digestive connection between glyphosate and aluminum...all the alarm bells went off.

Now all people want is a real study...and if that turns up nothing then people will want to study something else because right now there isn't an answer and parents really, really want an answer.