She received her Ph.D degree of Statistics from the Department of Biostatistics and Computational Biology in University of Rochester Medical Center. Her teaching involves both undergraduate introductory level courses and graduate level advanced courses in statistics. Her research interest lies in statistical methodology development and biostatistics application. The general goal of her research is to develop flexible statistical methods for complex data and to gain better inference. In particular she is interested in pursuing research in empirical likelihood-based method, partially linear models, survival analysis, nonparametric and semi-parametric regression. Her collaborative research focuses on environmental studies, nutritional studies, public health and medical studies.