Prior to joining NYU Shanghai, she was a Research Assistant at the Department of Statistics, University of Kentucky. She holds a Ph.D. in Mathematics from Xiamen University and a Ph.D. (ABD) in Statistics from University of Kentucky. Dr. Kong’s research interests are multivariate analysis, asymptotic expansions, repeated measure and high dimensional data analysis in statistics, Lie algebra, KacMoody algebra, and left symmetric algebra in mathematics. Her work has appeared in Journal of Multivariate Analysis, Communications in Algebra, International Journal of Mathematics, and Pacific Journal of Mathematics.