He received the Bachelor of Engineering degree in Thermal Engineering from Tsinghua University with honorsin 2000. He obtained the Master of Science degree in Aerospace Engineering in 2003 and the Master of Engineering degree in Industrial Engineering in 2004 from Texas A&M University, College Station, and the Ph.D. degree in Industrial Engineering from The University of Tennessee, Knoxville in 2007. He joined the Industrial and Systems Engineering Department of Ohio University in September 2008. His research interests are in yield, quality, and reliability issues related to nanoelectronics manufacturing, fatigue behavior of advanced engineering materials, applied statistics and stochastic processes, and Bayesian statistics.