She received her Bachelor's degree in Biology from Fudan University in 2008 andPhD in Nutrition from Cornell University in 2013. Her doctoral research focused on choline metabolism during pregnancy. She has published several original articles on choline, epigenetic modification, and angiogenesis. In her current research, she uses cell and rodent models to investigate the influence of maternal betaine and choline consumption on modifying placental macronutrient metabolism and fetal epigenetic programming inhigh risk pregnancies. The long-term goal of her research is to delineate the nutritional requirements and benefits of betaine and choline in humans.