She received a Ph.D. degree, and the “Charles Hallac and Sarah Keil Wolf Award for Best Doctoral Dissertation” in Electrical and Systems Engineering in August 2016, with a dual Master degree of Statistics from Wharton School in August 2015, both from University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA. She received a B.S. degree with a major in Automation and a minor in Finance, from Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU), China in June 2010. Before joining Uconn, she was a postdoc researcher at the GRASP Lab and the PRECISE Lab of University of Pennsylvania. She was a Best Paper Award Finalist at the 6th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Cyber-Physical Systems (ICCPS) in 2015.