She received her B.S. and M.S. in Chemistry from National Taiwan Normal University. Yi-Cheun pursued her Ph.D. in Chemistry at University of Massachusetts, Amherst under the guidance of Professor Vincent Rotello. Her doctoral work mainly focused on engineering the Nano-Bio interface through the tailoring of the surface monolayers of nanomaterials. Upon graduation, Yi-Cheun moved to Philadelphia to perform her postdoctoral studies in the polymeric biomaterials laboratory of Professor Jason Burdick, with the focus of developing functional polymers for biomedical applications. The goal of her research is to engineer functional materials to obtain fundamental understanding and practical applications in nanomedicine, tissue engineering and biofabrication.