He holds a Ph.D. in Cognitive Science from Brown University, M.A. in Linguistics from Brown University, and B.S. in Psychology from National Chengchi University. He also received postdoctoral training from the Speech Communication Group at MIT’s Research Laboratory of Electronics. His research explores the contribution of phonetic and cognitive knowledge to speech perception and spoken word recognition, particularly pertaining to the processing of lexical tones. He teaches phonetics, speech science, and experimental phonetics at Ohio University.