Tingli is interested in developing and applying computational tools for molecular design, with the goal of creating therapeutic molecules for the treatment of diseases. She is also passionate about understanding biomolecular mechanisms through computational methods. As an undergraduate, she conducted research at the intersection of computational biology and pharmaceutical chemistry, working on multiple projects that employed data science approaches and computational modeling. She has a B.S. in Bioinformatics from The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen.