He earned his Ph.D. in MIS from the Eller College of Management at the University of Arizona, M.S and B.S in MIS at Tsinghua University in China. His research interests include data mining, business analytics, social media analytics, and health informatics. His research has appeared in journals including JMIS, DSS, IEEE Transactions, JASIST, JAIS, Bioinformatics, CACM, ESA, ISF, and so on.