She obtained her Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering from German Aerospace Center/Technical University of Hamburg in 2012. From 2012 to 2015, she worked as a postdoc in German Aerospace Center, Hamburg. She received her M.S. and B.S. degrees in Control Theory and Electronical Engineering from Northwestern Polytechnical University in Xian, China. Her research interests mainly include air transportation networks, multi-modal transportation, and resilience of complex networks. She also won two best paper awards (CICTP 2016 and ICRAT 2014).