She is a professor of mathematics and statistics at Haverford College.
[1] Miao has a bachelor's degree in mathematics from Peking University.
She went to Tufts University for graduate study in probability theory and statistics, earning a master's degree and a Ph.D.
[2] Her 1995 doctoral dissertation, Maximum Likelihood Estimation for Exponential Families, was supervised by Marjorie Hahn.
[2] Miao was named a Fellow of the American Statistical Association in 2021.