Dr. Choo has undergraduate and graduate degrees from the University of Waikato in New Zealand and holds a doctorate in Chemistry from the University of Malaysia. She is a researcher and inventor of note with a focus on renewable energy and bioenergy, specifically related to palm oil. She is responsible for the development of new, efficient and green processes within the palm oil industry, including the production and evaluation of palm biofuel and B5 processed palm/oil and petroleum blends. She has researched the chemistry of palm oil components and created the processes for the production of red palm oil, palm oil, palm kernel oil and a number of palm oil by-products.

Her work in developing petroleum / palm oil blends is of particular interest and supports the Malaysian government’s initiative that, starting in 2007 all diesel sold in Malaysia must contain 5% palm oil.

She is currently the Director of the Malaysian Palm Oil Board which was established on 1st May 2000 with the objective of promoting, developing and advancing the Malaysian palm oil industry. The Malaysian Palm Oil Board is responsible for providing the scientific and technological support to the Malaysian palm oil industry, which could soon make significant inroads into the global biofuel market. Oil palm is regarded as the most cost effective vegetable oil crop with average yields of 3.5 to 5.0 tons of palm oil per hectare, per year. Thus, it offers great potential as environment-friendly alternative fuel source, and it is estimated that Malaysia will be a net importer of petroleum by 2010 as a result of its use of palm oil blends in fuel.