He received his B.Eng degree from Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China, in 1998 and D.Phil degree from the University of Sussex, UK, in 2006. From 2006 to 2009, he was a postdoctoral research fellow at the School of Psychology, University of Birmingham, UK. His research interests cover from cognitive neuroscience with functional brain imaging techniques (fMRI, EEG, MEG) to theoretical modelling of neural information processing in the human brain. Currently, he focuses on the neural mechanism of human visual category learning and perceptual decision making.