Before joining SUTD, he had been a Postdoctoral Scholar in the Department of Mathematics, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). He was also a visiting student at the Image Processing Research Group at UCLA in 2008 and at the Image Sciences Institute, University Medical Center Utrecht, the Netherlands in 2007. He received his PhD in Electronic and Computer Engineering from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) in 2009. He also received a BEng degree (First Class Honors) in Computer Engineering in 2003 and a MPhil degree in Bioengineering in 2005 from HKUST. His research interests include computer vision, computer graphics and computational fabrication.