Her current research focuses on information seeking behavior, data analytics, information architecture, and social web. Tingting has been the principle investigator on two research projects funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China and Baidu, Inc. Her research articles have appeared in the Journal of Documentation, the Journal of Informetrics, and the Journal of Information Science. She was accepted into the Chutian Scholar Program of Hubei Province in 2011 and the 351 Scholar Program of Wuhan University in 2014 for her academic excellence.