Before joining HKU, she was a postdoctoral researcher in the Temporal Dynamics of Learning Center (TDLC) at the University of California, San Diego (UC San Diego) and worked with Prof. Gary Cottrell. She received the Ph.D. degree in Informatics (Cognitive Science) from the University of Edinburgh in 2006, and her Ph.D. advisor was Dr. Richard Shillcock. She received the M.Sc. degree in Computing Science from Simon Fraser University in 2002, and her M.Sc. advisor was Prof. Bob Hadley. She received the B.Sc. degree in Computer Science from National Taiwan University in 1999.