Her research involves studying non-convex optimization and compressed sensing algorithms used in machine learning and statistical signal processing.
Chi graduated from Tsinghua University with a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering in 2007.
She went to Princeton University for graduate study in electrical engineering, earning a master's degree in 2009 and completing her Ph.D. in 2012.
[1][2] Her dissertation, Exploitation of Geometry in Signal Processing and Sensing, was supervised by Robert Calderbank.
[1] Chi was a 2019 recipient of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, sponsored through the Office of Naval Research.