She joined the faculty of EDMS in Fall 2007 after working as a psychometrician on K-12 state assessment programs for about four years. Before working full time in psychometrics, she studied at the Florida State University for her doctoral degree in Measurement, Statistics, and Evaluation. Prior to her graduate studies in the United States, she taught ESL in the College of Foreign Languages at Shanghai Jiao Tong University in China, where she completed her M.A in Linguistics and Applied Linguistics and her B.S. in English for Science and Technology.