She received her BS degree from Gyeongsang National University, and her MS (2001) and PhD (2007) degrees from Korea University, under the guidance of Prof. D. G. Lim. Her current research interests include the second-order nonlinear optical effects of octupolar crystals, nanophotonics, plasmonics, and continuous tunable cholesteric liquid-crystal lasers. She has published 39 papers in peer-reviewed journals.