Aileen Wee first obtained her Bachelor's degree in Biotechnology at UCSI University Malaysia and worked as a Research Assistant on Dengue viruses at Sunway University. On the sidelines, she is currently serving her term as the National Point of Contact (NPoC) of Malaysia with the Space Generation Advisory Council (SGAC), where she coordinated the Program’s Team for the 10th Asia-Pacific Space Generation Workshop at the Maldives, hosted talks about opportunities in space at her local university, and represented SGAC at the 2023 Langkawi International Aerospace and Maritime Exhibition (LIMA) and Langkawi International Space Forum (LISF), which marked the first collaboration between SGAC and the Malaysian Space Agency (MYSA). She was also a Visiting Scholar and Research Associate at the Blue Marble Space Institute of Science under the Young Scientist Program, in which she assisted in developing the online repository, Knowledge Base, of potential biosignatures in a collaboration internship with the Center for Life Detection Science of NASA Ames. At Rice, she hopes to transition into the space sector by spearheading space project management in the country with the Professional Science Master’s program in Space Studies.