He received his PhD degree from Harbin Institute of Technology, China in 2009. His research is in the areas of bioinformatics, machine learning and parallel computing. Now his focus is on genome assembly, annotation, and functional analysis from next generation sequencing data with parallel computing methods. Several related works have been published in Briefings in Bioinformatics, Bioinformatics, PLOS ONE, and IEEE/ACMTransactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics. He serves on many impactful journals and the National Natural Science Foundation of China.