She received her PhD in Meteorology from the Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, in 2015. Her research interests center around the dynamics of the global mass circulation and its association with climate variability and climate change, including relationships between the global mass circulation and the mechanisms and predictability of cold-air outbreaks in mid-latitudes. She has been a lead researcher on the cold air outbreak sub-seasonal forecast team at Florida State University since September 2014.