He received a B.S degree from Beijing University in 2001 followed a Ph.D in Biochemistry from Case Western Reserve University in 2008. From 2008 to 2012, he underwent postdoctoral fellowship training in the lab of Harvey Lodish at the Whitehead Institute in Boston, MA. In 2012 he was awarded an NRF fellowship award in Singapore and joined the faculty at Duke-NUS. His research focuses on epigenetic regulation of adipocyte development.