She received her B.S. in Physics in 1996 from Nanjing University, M.A. in Sociology from Huazhong University of Science and Technology, and PhD in Sociology from University of Illinois at Chicago in August 2007. She is currently conducting a NSFC funded research concerning the geographic constraint on technology transfer from university to industry. She has also been involved in two national surveys on Chinese scientists. Her papers appear in Social Studies of Science, Research Policy, Nature, etc. She teaches Sociology of Science, Social Studies of Science and Technology, and Introduction to Science, Technology and Society.