Her research interests are in information architectures and data management systems, with a focus on data streams, data dissemination, XML query processing, and learning-based data processing. Her PhD dissertation on Query Processing for Large-Scale XML Message Brokering won the 2006 ACM-SIGMOD Dissertation Award Honorable Mention. She received her PhD in Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley in 2005, her M.S. in Computer Science from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in 2000, and her B.S. in Computer Science from Fudan University in China in 1998. During her graduate study, she also interned at the IBM Almaden Research Center and BEA Systems. She is a member of ACM and IEEE.