[1] She is a professor in the Institute of Discrete Mathematics at the Graz University of Technology.

[2] Kang completed a PhD at KAIST, the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, in 2001.

Her dissertation, Random Walks on a Union of Finite Groups, was supervised by Geon Ho Choe.

[3] She became a postdoctoral researcher at the Humboldt University of Berlin from 2001 to 2008, and completed a habilitation there in 2007.

[5] Kang was a 2019 winner of the Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Prize of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.