Dr. Gong, a native of Perak, Malaysia, received a Bachelor of Dental Surgery degree from the University of Malaya, Malaysia. She then earned a Master of Science degree in Orthodontics at the College of Dentistry at Ohio State University. Simultaneously, she received a Master of Arts degree from the College of Education at the same institution. She then attended the University of Connecticut Health Science Center in Farmington, Connecticut, for a one-year period, and then completed the Ph.D. program in Molecular Genetics at the University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas.

Dr. Gong presently is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Orthodontics and Pediatric Dentistry in the School of Dentistry. She is co-director of the Dentofacial (orthognathic surgery) Program in the department, and leads a research laboratory in the field of molecular genetics.