She received the B.S. and M.S. degrees from Xi'an JiaoTong University (China), both in Computer Science. She received the Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from Washington University in Saint Louis, USA in 2008. She works in bioinformatics and computational biology. In particular, her recent research interests include sequence analysis, next-generation sequencing data analysis, metagenomics, protein domain annotation, and noncoding RNA annotation. She was a recipient of NSF CAREER Award in 2010.