Previously, she worked as a scientific investigator at GlaxoSmithKline pharmaceuticals. She received a master’s degree in Computational Sciences from the National University of Singapore in 2004 and a Ph.D. degree in Biomedical Informatics from Columbia University in 2010. Her research and teaching interests are in the broad areas of health informatics. Primarily, her research focuses on applying data mining, text mining and data integration techniques on top of various medical data, including electronic health records, scientific literature and social media data, to address real world problems in healthcare.