She was a senior member of CCF, and an associate editor of HISS. She was awarded her Ph.D. in signal and information processing from Xidian University in 2012. She cooperated with Prof. Xiaohui Liu at Brunel University in UK from 2010 to 2011 in gene selection research. Her research interests include machine learning, data mining, and biomedical data analysis. She received an engineering master degree in the application technology of computers at Xidian University in 2004 and a bachelor degree of science in computer science at Shanxi Normal University in 1993, and from then on she has been working in Shaanxi Normal University.