She worked in the Department of Computer Science at Rensselear Polytechnic Institute as a postdoc research associate after graduated in 2007. Her host advisor is Dr. Wei Zhao. She received her Ph.D. degree from Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Florida Atlantic University in August 2007. She obtained her M.S. degree from Department of Computer Science and Technology, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China in 2003 and B.S. degree from Jiangsu University, Zhengjiang, China in 2000, both in Computer Science. Her phd dissertation advisors were Dr. Jie Wu (currently with Temple University) and Dr. Mihaela Cardei.