She received her Ph.D. from Shanghai University in 2007. She also is a visiting professor in the optical scanning-holographic imaging group (OSIG), Bradley Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Virginia Tech, USA. Her current research interests include digital holography, digital holographic tomography, Transport of Intensity-Equation and other precision optical measurement. She is an author of over 40 peer-reviewed journals publications, also has been invited as a reviewer for the prestigious journals in optical fields and biomedical fields.