She received a PhD in 2004 from Imperial College London, in the field of Music Information Retrieval. She also won an award at the Invention and New Product Exhibition (INPEX) in USA for her work on content-based music retrieval. She is currently the head of the Digital Information Computation and Retrieval Research (DICR) group at UPM and is an active member of the Malaysian Information Retrieval and Knowledge Management Society (PECAMP). She has worked extensively in the field of Multimedia Information Processing and completed various funded projects on audio content analysis in the music, speech and medical domains.