She received her Ph.D. degree from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2008. Her research interests include data mining, database systems, and machine learning. She received research paper awards at ICDE'07, SIGKDD'06 and SIGKDD'05, and the certificate of recognition for the 2009 SIGKDD Doctoral Dissertation Award. She is a recipient of the 2010 Vice-Chancellor's Exemplary Teaching Award at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.