Prof. Keng obtained her undergraduate degree in Chemistry at Lewis Clark State College, Idaho and continued to pursue her Ph.D degree in Chemistry at University of Arizona, Tucson under the guidance of Prof. Jeffrey Pyun. Upon obtaining her Ph.D degree in 2010, she was awarded with the UCLA Scholars in Oncologic Molecule Imaging (SOMI) to pursue her postdoctoral training under the guidance of Prof. R. Michael van Dam. In 2011, Dr. Keng was appointed as a tenured-track Assistant Professor in the Department of Molecular and Medical Pharmacology, UCLA where she developed microfluidic devices and radiochemical methods for on-demand production of diverse radiotracers. She started her academia career again at the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, National Tsing Hua University in 2019, in which her research program focuses on developing boron-based nanomaterials for catalysis and biomedical applications.