He received his PhD degree of transportation planning and management in College of Transportation Engineering from Tongji University, Shanghai, in 2015 and worked as a visiting PhD candidate at University of Maryland, College Park during 2013-2014. His research and teaching interests encompass traffic engineering, dynamic traffic model, traffic flow theory, traffic condition prediction and urban public transportation policy. His research appears in Transportation Research Board, World Conference Transportation Research, Journal of Tongji University (natural science), and the China Journal of Highway and Transport.