I am an epidemiologist focusing on diabetes and its social determinants. I obtained my basic and master medical qualifications from Lanzhou University (China) and received PhD training in environmental epidemiology under a joint PhD program between Lanzhou University and Yale University (USA). Before joining CUHK, my research focused on the relationship between environmental exposures and other social determinants of health with risk of diabetes and other cardiometabolic diseases through design, organization and implementation of large-scale surveys. My research interests now lie in epidemiology and pharmacoepidemiology of diabetes, environmental risk factors of diabetes, and application of advanced statistical and machine-learning algorithms for analysis of massive data from electronic health record (EHR) systems.