She received her doctoral degree in Operations Management from the Fuqua School of Business, Duke University and her Bachelor’s degree from the School of Mathematics, Peking University. She has presented her research in conferences such as INFORMS, MSOM and POMS. Her paper 'Good and bad news about the (S,T) policy' has been accepted in the leading operations journal Manufacturing & Service Operations Management. Her research has also been published in Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Information and Management Sciences and Proceedings of the Sixth Conference for Youth OR/MS Researchers in China.