She then chose to pursue a career with devices that use material properties, and enrolled at the University of California, Santa Barbara for her Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering.
"[3] In 2010, Debdeep Jena and Xing received separate Department of Defense funding through the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency for a project to create new gallium nitride (GaN) ultraviolet light sources that can be used by soldiers to purify water in the field.
[7] As a result of her research, Xing was selected to join the national consortium to develop future cellular infrastructure.
"[10] During the COVID-19 pandemic, Xing was appointed to a two-year term as Associate Dean for Research, Entrepreneurship, and Graduate Studies for the College of Engineering.
[11] Her co-authored paper "Molecular beam homoepitaxy on bulk AlN enabled by aluminum-assisted surface cleaning" was selected as an Editor’s Pick in the journal Applied Physics Letters.