She received the B.Sc. degree in physics and mathematics in 2002 and M.Sc. degree in physics in 2004, from Tsinghua University. She received the Ph.D. degree in physics from MIT in 2009. After a one year postdoctoral fellowship at the Institute for Quantum Computing at the University of Waterloo, she joined the University of Guelph. Her research interests include quantum information theory, coding theory, quantum computation, theory of quantum entanglement, and mathematical physics.