She received her BS degree in surveying engineering, and her MS and PhD degrees in cartography and geoinformation from Tongji University, Shanghai, China, in 2003, 2006, and 2009, respectively. From 2007 to 2008, she was with the Institute of Photogrammetry and GeoInformation, Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany, funded by the China Scholarship Council, as a visiting scholar. Since June 2009, she has been with the College of Surveying and Geoinformatics, Tongji University, where she is currently an associate professor and teaches courses related to GIS and remote sensing. Her research interests include hyperspectral remote sensing and polar remote sensing.