She received a Bachelor of Science degree in Chemistry in 1997 from Anhui University, China. In 2006, she received her Ph.D. degree in analytical chemistry from Washington State University. Between 2006 and 2008, she conducted her postdoctoral research on top-down proteomics at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL). Later, she worked as a research scientist at Battelle Toxicology Northwest (2008–2010) and as a senior scientist at PNNL (2010–2014). In 2015, she joined the faculty of the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the University of Oklahoma. Her research is focused on developing advanced top-down proteomics techniques to understand protein dynamics and function in different biological systems.