He received his Bachelor’s Degree in electronics engineering from Peking University in 2002, and obtained his PhD in Computer Science from Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2008. He subsequently obtained postdoctoral training in Medical Image Computing at the UNC, where he has been a Research Assistant Professor of Radiology since 2011. He is also an affiliated faculty with the UNC Biomedical Research Imaging Center (BRIC). His research interests include pattern recognition and machine learning, multimodal medical image analysis, neuroanatomy and cognitive neuroscience, and statistical applications in neurodevelopment, neurological and psychiatric diseases.