He obtained his PhD in 2010 from Hokkaido University under the supervision of Professor Jian Ping Gong. Then, he became a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Toronto and Institut Curie. He joined Zhejiang University in 2013 as an Assistant Professor and became an Associate Professor in 2015. His research focuses on the designing of biomimetic and functional soft materials, especially hydrogels with ordered structures, novel functions, controllable heterogeneous structures, and programmed deformations.