She received her B.S. in micro and nano electronics from Tsinghua University in China and her M.S. and Ph.D. in electrical engineering and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Her research interests are in optical spectroscopic techniques and light-matter interactions of low-dimensional materials; optical coupling between two-dimensional materials and plasmonic nanostructures; novel electronic/photonic devices using integrated nanostructures; trace chemical/molecule detection based on photonic methods. She has had numerous journal publications and is the recipient of many awards including the Ginzton Fellow from Stanford University, the Kavli Institute Fellowship, the Director’s Fellow from the Los Alamos National Laboratory and a Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Students Abroad.