Her main research interest is social affective computing and human computer speech interaction. She has been awarded the ACM Multimedia Grand Challenge Prize (2012) and Scientific Progress Prizes from the National Ministry of Education twice (2009, 2016).She has authored about 70 papers in leading conferences and journals including T-KDE, T-MM, T-MC, T-ASLP, T-AC, ACM Multimedia, AAAI, IJCAI, WWW etc. She also has wide research collaborations with Tencent, SOGOU, Huawei, Siemens, MSRA, Bosch, etc.