Shuyun obtained her B.S. in Physics (2002) from the Tsinghua University in China. She earned her Ph.D. degree in 2007 at University of California, Berkeley where she worked with Alessandra Lanzara. She did postdoctoral research at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and was a project scientist there until 2012 when she moved to Tsinghua University where she was named professor in 2017.