She earned a Ph.D. in applied mathematics from Xi'an Jiaotong University in 2009. She was a visiting scholar at the University of Liverpool in UK from 2014.01-2014.04, and a Postdoc. Fellow at Tulane University in USA from 2014.11-2015.12. Her research interests include deep learning, machine learning, and Bioinformatics. She has published more than 20 papers in international refereed journals. She is the referee of 6 international journals.