sentences:  He was born 10 May 1957 in Liyang, Jiangsu, China.He graduated with a BS from Lanzhou University in 1982 and received his PhD in 1986 from the University of Pittsburgh, working with Kendall N. Houk in computational organic chemistry.He went on to become a research associate in University of California Los Angeles from 1989 to 1992, before beginning his independent research career in Hong Kong.