She acquired her Ph. D. in Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) in 2003, with an emphasis in human computer interaction and graphics. She had also worked as a research professor at Digital Media Laboratory at Information & Communications University until she joined at Dankook University and was a visiting scholar at MIT Media Laboratory in 2004. Her research interest includes human computer interaction, virtual reality, augmented reality, collaborative environments, tiled display systems, multimedia systems and 3D imaging.