She received her Ph.D. in Operations Research and Financial Engineering from Princeton University in 2007 under the supervision of Professor Jianqing Fan. Her research interests include deep learning, causal inference, personalized medicine and choices, scalable Bayesian inference, large-scale inference and false discovery rate control, networks, high-dimensional statistics, high-dimensional classification, big data problems, statistical machine learning, nonparametric statistics, business applications, and financial econometrics.