She obtained an MSc Degree from Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST). She then worked for the Samsung Electronics and Korea Telecom before obtaining a PhD in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of Texas at Arlington in 2002. Her research areas lie in the merging of techniques from the fields of databases (DB) and artificial intelligence (AI) and applying the new combined techniques to biomedical informatics and the Semantic Web with an emphasis on text mining, and data integration and management. She has published 30 papers in refereed literature.