He received his Bachelor’s degree in Electronics and Information Engineering from Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China in 2004, and his Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin in 2011. He joined Gerstein Lab as postdoctoral associate in 2012 and associate research scientist in 2015 in Yale University. His research has focused on bioinformatics, computational systems biology and biomedical informatics. He published his recent work in Nature, Genome Biology, PLoS Computational Biology, PNAS, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, PLoS ONE.