She was a senior researcher in the Machine Learning Department at NEC Labs American, Princeton, NJ from July 2008 to August 2013. Her research interests are within machine learning, data mining, and bioinformatics. She obtained her Ph.D. degree from School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University in May 2008 and received her Bachelor degree with high honors from Computer Science Department at Tsinghua University, Beijing. She has served as PCs and reviewers for multiple reknowned international conferences/ journals, and has co-chaired the NIPS “Machine Learning for Computational Biology” workshop. Dr. Qi has received CAREER award from NSF and a Best Paper Award at International Conference of BodyNet.