Graduated from State University of New York (Binghamton, USA) in 1980. The same year, she joined Faculty of Science in Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM) and later obtained MSc degree in Ionization Physics from University College of Swansea (Wales, UK) in 1982. She carried out her research related to Laser Technology Applications in Fluid Flows in UTM and obtained her PhD in 1992. Elevated to a Professor at the Faculty of Civil Engineering (2000), she began her research on a better system to control erosion, hence the birth of Sine-Slab. Beginning December 2000, she was seconded to the Bureau of Innovation of Consultancy as Manager for Commercialization.

Apart from her own research on product improvement of Sine-Slab as revetment and floating breakwater facilities, she is also involved in consultancy (research contracts) related to fluid flow modeling and physical modeling study of coastal structures namely, breakwaters, beams, artificial reefs and revetments.