Ai-Ling Lee was born in Singapore where she studied music audio engineering. After two years of mixing and editing commercials and music, she moved to Los Angeles in 1998 to pursue a career in sound design for feature films.

Since then she has worked as a sound designer, re-recording mixer and sound supervisor on a variety of films including Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes, Barbie, JoJo Rabbit, La La Land, Deadpool, Wild, Maze Runner and Buena Vista Social Club.

Ai-Ling was fortunate to work with directors Greta Gerwig, Ben Affleck, Damien Chazelle, Taika Waititi, Jean-Marc Vallée, Wes Ball, Cameron Crowe, Gus Van Sant and Sam Raimi.

She has been nominated for four Academy Awards (for editing and mixing) and two BAFTAs.