[1] Originally from China, she works in the US as a professor of statistics at the University of California, Riverside.
[3] Cui graduated from Nankai University in 1994, with a bachelor's degree in mathematics.
[2][4] She went to the University of California, Los Angeles for doctoral study in biostatistics, completing her Ph.D. in 2002.
Her dissertation, Quantitative trait linkage analysis of Saccharomyces cerevisiae gene expression data, was supervised by David Elashoff.
After completing her doctorate, she became an assistant professor at the University of California, Riverside, where she was tenured in 2008.