She received her M.S. in Physics from State University of New York, Albany and further her PhD from Arizona State University, Tempe under the guidance of Dr. Stuart Lindsay in 2012. Her thesis work was majorly focused on studying epigenetics, specifically DNA methylation, at single molecule level. During her PhD, she also worked as an intern in the pharmaceutical company, Bristol Myers Squibb. After completing her graduate studies at ASU, she joined Dr. Hong Wang’s lab as a postdoctoral researcher became a Research Assistant Professor at North Carolina State University in 2016.