She is the founder and Director of the Advanced Information Management Solutions (AIMS) Laboratory. She has also served as the Associate Director for a large-scope, multi-institutional, high-performance telemedicine project called MISSION (Medical Imaging Support via Satellite Integrated Optical Network), and directed the design, implementation, and operation of a Web-based database system for Electrical Vehicle (EV) National Data Center for over three hundred EV member organizations nationwide. She received a B.A. from National Taiwan University and a M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Arizona.