Fengxian is a senior programmer and analyst who manages phenotypic data in Cruchaga lab.
She received her doctoral degree in soil physics from China Agricultural University. She worked as a research associate in the agricultural engineering department at Missouri University in Columbia for three years. She then worked as a data analyst, managing Schizophrenia and Depression phenotypic data in the NIMH Repository and Genomics Resource (NRGR) at the medical school of Washington University in St. Louis for 13 years. She likes music, gardening, and travel.