Ji, Chunyan received the B.Sc. in Information Science from East China Normal University, Shanghai, China in 1995 and the M.Sc. degree in Computer Science from Georgia State University (GSU), Atlanta, USA in 2001. She worked as a software developer in Atlanta from 2001 to 2008 and worked as a senior lecturer in BNU-HKBU United International College, Zhuhai, China from 2008 to 2018. Since August 2018, she has been with GSU, where she currently working toward the Ph.D. degree. Her main research interests include sound event detection and deep learning.