He received his B.S. and M.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Science and Technology Beijing in 2001 and 2004, respectively. He obtained his Ph.D. in Reliability Engineering at the University of Maryland – College Park in 2010. His research interests include reliability and safety for energy storage systems, design for resilient systems, prognostics and health management for engineering systems, model validation under uncertainty, and system reliability and quality analysis. He has published more than 50 papers in prestigious journals and peer-reviewed conference proceedings. He is the recipient of 2016 DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) - Young Faculty Award. He is the winners of multiple (including twice Top 10) Best Paper Awards from ASME – Design Automation Conference in 2008, 2011, 2013, and 2015 respectively.