She obtained her B.E. and Ph.D. degrees in Reliability Engineering from Beihang University in 2004 and 2009, respectively. She was a visiting scholar in the Department of Systems and Industrial Engineering at the University of Arizona from 2013 to 2014. She is the author of more than forty scholarly papers covering various areas of network reliability and systems reliability. Her paper was awarded the Front-Runner 5000 in China. She is or was the PI of projects of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) and Beijing Natural Science Foundation (BNSF). She is a member of IEEE.