From 1982 to 1985, she was an Assistant Engineer, and from 1986 to 1989 an Electrical Engineer in Nanjing Electronics Devices Institute, Nanjing, China, where she was involved in III-V seminconductor material research and microwave semiconductor devices measurement techniques. Since September 1992, she has been working as a Teaching Assistant and is also a full-time graduate student working towards her Ph.D. in the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, at the University of Victoria, Victoria, B.C., Canada. Her research interests include numerical techniques for propagation and scattering of electromagnetic fields and waves.