She previously held positions as a Composer-in-Residence and Assistant Professor of Music at the Baldwin-Wallace Conservatory of Music, and a Visiting Assistant Professor at Duke University, where she taught a graduate seminar on the music of Toru Takemitsu and Witold Lutoslawski. She received her Bachelor of Music Degree from Beijing Central Conservatory of Music. She obtained her Master of Fine Arts Degree and her Doctor of Musical Arts Degree from Cornell University. She was chosen to participate in the one-year Computer Music and Composition courses at IRCAM (Institut de Recherche et Coordination Acoustique/Musique), Centre Pompidou, (Paris) where she studied composition.