She received a Master degree in Applied Mathematics from the University of Minnesota, and Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Iowa. She obtained three-year post-doc training in the Neuroimaging Research Branch at the National Institute on Drug Abuse. Before joining HKU, she worked as a research assistant professor in Psychiatry Department at the University of North Carolina. Her research includes methodology development in structural and functional MRI analyses, investigation of early brain development, and neuroimaging correlates associated with neuropsychiatric disorders.