She received her Dr.PH in Biostatistics from the University of California-Los Angeles and joined the Department of Psychiatry at UCLA as a post-doctorate upon graduation. Since then, Dr. Shih has been involved in several multi-site, randomized clinical trials in ASD research. Her areas of expertise include intervention study design and analysis, statistical methods for analyzing longitudinal and clustered data, machine learning techniques, and treatment mechanisms. She collaborates in diverse areas of social and biological sciences focusing on topic areas including autism spectrum disorder, genetics, and gastrointestinal disorders.