She received her Ph.D in Engineering applied Mathematics from University of Akron OH, and completed her training as associate researcher at bioinformatics program at Boston University MA. Her current research interests include developing mathematical model for identifying cancer biomarkers, survival analysis, data mining, big data analysis, and machine learning algorithm.Shehas published numerous peer-review articles and served asa member of review panels of scientific and computational journals.She is also a member of Korean Mathematical Society and Korean Women in Mathematical Science.