His research interests are broadly focused on understanding the co-evolution of coupled human-hydrologic systems under a changing environment including climate change, sea level rise and human activities. He received his B.S. in Environmental Engineering from Tongji University in 2001 and did his graduate studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, receiving his M.S. in 2005 and Ph.D. in 2009. Since he joined UCF, he has been working on watershed water balance across temporal scales, and climate change and sea level rise impact on hydrology in Florida.