Her research interests include managing supply uncertainty, sourcing strategies, game theory, supply chain management, operations research and decision analysis. Her research work has been published in a top-tier journal in the field of operations. She is the recipient of the Dean’s Dissertation Fellowship and Ray Watson Fellowship at the University of California-Irvine. She received her Ph.D. in operations and decision technologies from the University of California, Irvine; M.A. in management from University of Durham, U.K.; and B.E. in biological engineering from Shanghai Jiaotong University, China.