[1] She is the founding director of the Multimodal Analysis Laboratory of the Interactive and Digital Media Institute (IDMI) at the National University of Singapore (NUS).
Her current work involves the development and use of digital tools and techniques for multimodal analysis and mixed methods approaches to big data analytics.
Her research involves the study of the integration of language, images and other resources (e.g. gesture, movement, 3D objects and space) in texts, interactions and events, and her current work involves the development and use of digital tools and techniques for multimodal analysis and mixed methods approaches to big data analytics.
Her first software program for SFL analysis (published in 2002 on CD-ROM) was developed with the assistance of another mathematician, Kevin Judd (University of Western Australia).
The software is being used for teaching and research in Australia, Singapore, Malaysia, China, Japan, Hong Kong, USA, United Kingdom, Brazil, Finland, Greece, Germany, Sweden and South Africa.