She is an associate professor of biostatistics in the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
[5] She was a teaching assistant and doctoral student in Switzerland at the University of Neuchâtel from 2006 to 2008, working there on real-time tracking of forest fires.
She earned her Ph.D. in statistics there in 2011, also visiting the MD Anderson Cancer Center and Oak Ridge National Laboratory as a student.
[5] Her dissertation, Efficient semiparametric estimators for biological, genetic, and measurement error applications, was supervised by Ma.
[8] In 2018, she returned to the statistics department as a tenured associate professor,[5][8] before moving in 2020 to her present position in the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health.