Xiaoying completed her Ph.D. studies at the College of Environmental Sciences and Engineering at Peking University. After graduating, she worked as a Postdoctoral Researcher with Prof. Ellison Carter at Colorado State University and Prof. Jill Baumgartner at McGill University. She led the four-year fieldwork of Beijing Household Energy Transition program to evaluate the impact of coal-to-electricity policy on indoor and outdoor air pollution, personal exposures, and human health and welfare.