FPIL member Dr.Peng and her student Wu Bin published the paper "Mapping Quality of Life with Chernoff Faces in China."Chernoff Faces drawn from regional GDP per Captial and percentage of forest cover variables are distributed in a chinese map to represent the happiness of Chinese people in different provinces.Meanwhile, National Happiness Index (NHI) is generated from factor analysis to evaluate and compare the degrees of happiness in China.

The State Key Laboratory in Marine Pollution (SKLMP) of City University invited Dr. Peng as one of the key members of the Agriculture, fisheries and Conservation Department of Hong Kong (AFCD) project “Technical Review and Statistical analysis of the Datasets of Waterbird Monitoring Programme for the Deep Bay Area and Baseline Ecological Monitoring Programme for the Mai Po Inner Deep Bay Ramsar Site”.Dr. Peng and her students are responsible for all the statistical analysis and modeling. They use many statistical methods such as time series analysis model ,Generalized linear model, biplot, graphical model  and get some good result about the time and space distribution of waterbird. .