She is also a faculty member in the Interdepartmental Ph.D. Program in Bioinformatics and a member in the Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center (JCCC) Gene Regulation Research Program Area. Prior to joining UCLA, she obtained her Ph.D. degree from the Interdepartmental Group in Biostatistics at University of California, Berkeley, where she worked with Profs Peter J. Bickel and Haiyan Huang. She received her B.S. (summa cum laude) from Department of Biological Sciences and Technology at Tsinghua University, China in 2007.