Background
Ying was born in Taipei in 1966.
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She then attended Princeton University, receiving her Master of Arts in 1988 and her Doctor of Philosophy in 1991, both in chemical engineering.
Career
She moved to Singapore with her family in 1973 where she was a student at Raffles Girls" School. Her family moved to New York when she was 15. She earned a Bachelor of Engineering degree, graduating summa cum laude from Cooper Union in 1987.
She spent a year as a Humboldt Fellow at the Institute for New Materials in Saarbrücken and researched nanocrystalline materials with Herbert Gleiter.
Ying became a professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) in 1992. She was made a full professor in 2001.
At 35 she was one of Massachusetts Institute of Technology"s youngest full professors. Ying returned to Singapore in 2003 to serve as the first executive director of the Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology, a division of the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR).
Her research concerns the biomedical and catalytic applications of nanostructured systems and materials.
Ying was elected to the Singapore Women"s Hall of Fame in 2014.
