She received her M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the Chonbuk National University, South Korea, in 2006 and 2010, respectively. In 2011, she has worked as a research professor in Grid Middleware Research Center, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), South Korea. Before she joined Ajou University, she had worked as an associate professor in School of Electronic and Information Engineering, Soochow University, China, for more than two years. Her research interests fall in optical communication networks and protocols, datacenter networks, optical fiber sensor networks, and Cloud computing networks.