Before joining NII, she was a senior research fellow at School of Computing, National University of Singapore. Her research interests include large-scale multimedia/music/educational data mining, multimodal learning, and multimedia/music analysis (see ongoing works, lectures, and source codes). She has been working with lots of researchers (see students and collaborators) with different research backgrounds. She and her team are awarded best paper runner up in APWeb-WAIM 2017, recognized as finalist of the World’s FIRST 10K best paper award in ICME17, won the 2nd prize in Yahoo Flickr grand challenge 2015, were in the top winners (out of 29 teams) awarded by ACM SIGSPATIAL GIS Cup 2013, and received a best paper award from IEEE ISM 2012.