She received the BS degree and the MS degree from Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China, in 1994 and 1997 respectively. She received the PhD degree from Tsinghua University in 2010. Since 1997, she has been a faculty member at the Department of Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University. Her research interests include multilingual document recognition, pattern recognition, and machine learning. She was one of the recipients of the National Awards for Science and Technology Progress (Second Class) in China in 1999, 2003 and 2008. She is a member of the IEEE and of the ACM.