[1] She attended Seoul National University, graduating with a degree in physics, before moving to the United States to pursue a doctorate in the subject at the State University of New York at Stony Brook.
[2] Pi then completed postdoctoral research at Rockefeller University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
[3] During her postdoctoral research, Pi met and later married fellow physicist Roman Jackiw.
[1] Pi taught at Boston University and was granted emeritus status upon retirement.
[2] In 2014, she was elected a fellow of the American Physical Society, which recognized her "[f]or her seminal contributions to the phenomenon of density fluctuations in theories of cosmic inflation.