She received a Ph.D. degree in Computer and Software Theory from Fudan University, China, in 2008. Her research interests include database, data mining and their applications in finance, economics, insurance, bioinformatics and sociology. Her research has been supported in part by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), the Development Fund of Shanghai Science and Technology Commission, and Shanghai Leading Academic Discipline Project under Grant. She is a member of ACM Computer Society and Chinese computer Federation.