He received his PhD in Internet computing and e-commerce in 2005 at Griffith University, Australia, MSc in computation at University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology, UK, and bachelor of economics at University of International Business and Economics, China. Prior to his PhD research, he had more than 12 years of working experiences in international trade, business management, production management, and software development in the positions of sales manager, marketing manager, managing director, software developer, and chief technology officer. His current research interests are focused on semantic integration, virtual world and e-commerce technology for e-business engineering and next generation e-commerce platform.