She received her Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering at the State University of New York at Stony Brook in 2004, and was a post-doctoral research fellow in the Department of Pathology at the Weill Medical College of Cornell University in 2005-2007. Her research interests include flow induced vascular endothelial cell activation, platelet activation and thrombosis, endothelial cell - platelet interactions in atherosclerosis, Inflammatory responses in atherosclerosis, myocardial infarction and other cardiovascular diseases, numerical simulation of blood flow field under various disease conditions, and multi-scale modeling of vascular endothelial cells, platelets, leukocytes and erythrocytes interaction. Her current research has been funded by the American Heart Association and the National Science Foundation. Updated: April 9, 2013