Career
Her research interests include number theory, coding theory, automorphic forms, and spectral graph theory. She earned a doctorate from the University of California, Berkeley in 1974, under the supervision of Andrew Ogg. Before joining the PSU faculty in 1979, she held assistant professorships at Harvard University from 1974 to 1977, and the University of Illinois at Chicago from 1978 to 1979.
She has also been director of the National Center of Theoretical Sciences in Taiwan.