She is an elected Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) for her “contributions to human-machine interactions”,[1] an elected Fellow of the International Speech Communication Association for “fundamental contributions to the interdisciplinary area of spoken language human-machine interactions” [2][3] and an elected Fellow of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) for her “significant contributions toward statistical NLP, comparable corpora, and building intelligent systems that can understand and empathize with humans”.

She has been invited as an AI expert to different government initiatives in China, Japan, the UAE, India, the European Union and the United Nations.

Her PhD thesis proposed unsupervised methods for aligning texts and mining dictionary translations in different languages by distributional properties.

She is an expert in spoken language understanding and computer emotional intelligence, and is a strong proponent of technology transfer.

Fung has applied many of her research group's results in the fields of, among others, robotics, IoT, and financial analytics.