He received his PhD in electrical engineering from Xidian University in 1995. Then he performed postdoctoral work in magnetic resonance physics at the University of Florida during 1998-2001. He joined the University of Georgia in 2006 before worked in the MR industry during 2001-05. He has been working over ten years on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), contrast-enhanced MRI, quantitative MRI of cancer using magnetic nanoparticles, and signal/image processing. His research has been supported by the National Institutes of Health, Department of Defense, and UGA research foundation. He has over thirty publications in peer-reviewed journals and over fifty conference proceeding and abstracts.