She received her PhD from Sun Yat-Sen University in China. She has been teaching hospitality and tourism related subjects at both undergraduate and graduate level. She visited OSU as a visiting scholar from July 2017 to July 2018. Her research interests are human resource management in hospitality and tourism industry and service quality. She is a Certified Hospitality Educator (CHE) and also Qualified Learning Facilitator (QLF) of Ecole Hoteliere de Lausann, Switzerland.