Yun Xiang Yuan received the B.Eng. degree from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. She received the M.Sc. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Saskatchewan, Canada in 1989, where she is currently enrolled in a Ph.D. program.She has worked as an engineer at YanShan PetroChemical Company for several years. She was a research engineer for Beijing Medical Equipment Institute before coming to Canada.