She was an Industrial Research Fellowship holder from Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) and served as a senior research engineer in InCoreTec, Inc. Canada before she joined Concordia University in 2003. She received her Ph.D. from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University in 1999 and her Master degree from Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics in 1991. Her research interests include nonlinear control in mechatronics, artificial intelligent control, advanced process control and system identification and visual servoing.