She obtained a B.S. degree from Tsinghua University in China in 2007 and a Ph.D. from the University of Florida in Industrial and Systems Engineering in 2011. Her research interests are in mathematical optimization, in particular stochastic programming, network optimization, and integer programming. Applications of her work include health care operations management, Cloud Computing, and critical infrastructure design. She was named one of the two runners-up of the 2010 INFORMS Computing Society Best Student Paper award, was awarded the 1st Place of the 2012 IIE Pritsker Doctoral Dissertation Award, and was a recipient of 2012 IBM Smarter Planet Innovation Faculty Award.