Dr. Rao received his degree in Biophysics and Cognitive Neuroscience from the University of Science and Technology of China. Dr. Rao was trained at Beijing Laboratory of Cognitive Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and has been worked as a lecturer in the Department of Psychology, Sun Yat-Sen University in China until 2004 before moving to the United States. Dr. Rao was a postdoctoral research fellow in the Center for Functional Neuroimaging at University of Pennsylvania from 2004-2007.