She was born on 27 February 1958 in
British Hong Kong. After working for
Bell Labs and
Bellcore in New Jersey in the late-1980s, she returned to Columbia Engineering in 1990 and became associate professor, before being promoted to professor of materials science and engineering in 2002. she also used this fellowship for work she did as a visiting professor at the
University of California, San Diego. She was elected
Fellow of the American Physical Society in 2018 "for observing and understanding the grain boundary dislocation motion in materials, providing a seminal impact on superconducting
thin film boundary devices, and inventing a novel ecological synthesis technique of nano-crystals oxides for catalysis applications." ==References==