Dr. Ping is strongly committed to supporting and mentoring students. As a faculty member with joint appointments in Physiology, Medicine/Cardiology, and Bioinformatics, she has been instrumental in creating a wide spectrum of educational programs, including high school internship programs, diversity-focused programs, graduate degree programs and physician scientist training programs. Over the past 20 years, in addition to large classroom-based lecturing in both the UCLA School of Medicine and School of Engineering, Dr. Ping has mentored 70+ postdoctoral fellows and graduate students. Each is playing an important role in many aspects of our society today; 16 have achieved independent positions in academia and many have successful careers in both public and private sectors. Recently, she worked with Dr. Karol Watson to create a physician scientist training program in data science, and under her leadership, the NIH BD2K Center of Excellence at UCLA has collaborated with the CTSA Program at UCLA to engage physician investigators in data analytical tool development. She also serves as core faculty in training graduate students in the Bioinformatics and Medical Informatics programs at UCLA. Overall, Dr. Ping is committed to cross-disciplinary training that integrates computational biology, bioinformatics, computer science, statistics, and medical informatics in order to equip future investigators with skills required for the digital era of biomedicine.