PhD student

Prevention of Diabetes and Related Metabolic Disorders in High Risk Groups

Current work and interests

Ping is a PhD student supervised by Dr Julia Mueller, Prof Amy Ahern, and Prof Felix Naughton. Her research interests focus on the role of wearables technologies in self-management interventions for chronic conditions. Funded by the ESRC CAM-DTP, Ping’s PhD will investigate the relationships between mental wellbeing and self-management behaviours in Type 2 diabetes.

Background and experience

Ping holds a Bachelor of Engineering in Industrial Design from the Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications (BUPT), where she undertook her graduation project and thesis on the design and development of a Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)-based mental health support app for college students. She later joined Zepp Health (NYSE: ZEPP) as a Product Manager, spending three years designing and implementing health monitoring features and digital health interventions for Amazfit smartwatches.

Motivated to deliver evidence-based mobile health (mHealth) interventions and bridge the gaps between industry and research, Ping transitioned into academia and completed her Master’s degree in Health Research Methods at the University of Birmingham in 2025. Her master’s thesis was a systematic review and meta-analysis, comparing the effectiveness of human-delivered and automated personalised guidance in mhealth interventions for Type 2 diabetes self-management.

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