Currently, she is director of technical program management for Amazon's Project Kuiper, an initiative to increase broadband internet access through an array of satellites in low Earth orbit.

[1] After spending her childhood in Burma and Malaysia, Aung returned to the United States at age 16 and studied engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where she received her Bachelor's and master's degrees.

[14] During her master's program one of her professors mentioned JPL's work in deep space exploration and its relationship to signal processing.

[2] In 1990, Aung joined JPL, where she worked on various projects related to spaceflight and the NASA Deep Space Network (DSN).

She started her career working in the Radio Frequency and Microwave Subsystems Section of the DSN, where she developed and tested algorithms for the Block V Receiver.

[14][10] Her next project involved the StarLight two-spacecraft interferometer, for which she designed the autonomous formation radio frequency flying sensor.

[18][14] Since 2015, Aung has been the lead for Mars helicopter technology demonstration development[10][14] and oversees the diverse team that designed, built, tested and flew Ingenuity.

[24][25] The helicopter was attached to the belly of the Perseverance rover and launched from Cape Canaveral in Florida on July 30, 2020, as part of NASA's Mars 2020 mission.

For the first flight, Ingenuity took off, climbed to about 10 feet (3.0 meters) above the ground, hovered in the air briefly, completed a turn, and then landed.

[32][33] In July 2021, after 30 years at JPL, Aung left for a new role as director of technical program management at Amazon's Kuiper Systems.

This project is an initiative to improve broadband internet access to communities around the world using a network of satellites in low Earth orbit.