She graduated from Nanjing University in 2001 with a B.S. in Economics. She received her M.S. from Peking University in 2004, and a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of California, Davis in 2010. Her research interests are international macroeconomics/finance, international trade, applied econometrics and macroeconomics. Her recent research focuses on how financial frictions influence the international risk sharing levels and capital flows across countries, equity home bias, estimation methods on the gravity equations, and quantitative trade model. Her work has been published in Applied Economics, Asian Economic Papers, and China Economic Quarterly.