She is also a research fellow of Center for Collaborative Innovation on Territorial Sovereignty and Maritime Rights (CCITSMR) which was established in 2013 and sponsored by the Ministry of Education in the following year. In 2012, she got her PhD degree of law, working on the issue of “The Interaction between Historic Rights and the UNCLOS”. Since then, her research interest has been focused on international law of the sea and the peaceful dispute settlement of the South China Sea disputes. In order to make her research more suitable to actual circumstances, she worked for Ministry of Foreign Affairs of China from 2013-2015. In recent years, she has published several articles on the South China Sea Arbitration and other related issues in Chinese, also, she has hold and completed several research project on this issue.