She received Ph.D. from the Shanghai Conservatory of Music supervised by Professor Daqun Jia. Ms. Zheng is also a Harvard alumnus and has studied music theory and composition with Professor Christopher Hasty. Her current research interests focus on the co-relations between music analysis and composition, performance. Her works focus on intermingling Chinese ancient poetry and contemporary compositional techniques staged at Harvard University, The 31st Shanghai Spring International Festival, etc. Also, she devotes to interdisciplinary research on music theory and philosophy. Her works include Say Goodbye to Cambridge Again (for trumpet and piano), Jade Lotus (for violin and piano) and so on. Yan Zheng was named a Guest Artist by Harvard University Pforzheimer House in 2013.