She has a PhD in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU).
She joined Sheffield Hallam University in 2016 and currently is a senior lecturer in Systems Engineering and course leader for MSc Advanced Engineering and Management in the Department of Engineering and Mathematics. Prior to joining Hallam, she was a visiting scholar at Georgia Institute of Technology, USA.
She also worked as a researcher at Centre of Innovation at Ngee Ann Polytechnic, Singapore. Before that, she was a lecturer at Wuhan Institute of Technology, China, where she led the industrial training program of surface mount technology in collaboration with Foxconn Technology Group.