He earned his bachelors and Ph.D. degrees from the Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics in 2002 and 2009, respectively. His doctoral research has won the National Excellent Doctoral Dissertation Award (Top 100) from China in 2011. He stayed at the York University in Canada as a visiting scholar from November in 2014 to November in 2015. His main research interests are in the dynamics modeling, motion/vibration control, and ground-based experiments of space structures. He has authored or co-authored over 40 research papers in the areas of space tether, in-orbit autonomous assembly of large spacecraft, and deployable space structure, etc.