He obtained the Ph.D, M.D and B.S. from NUDT in 2011, 2005 and 2003 respectively, all in computer science. He was a visiting Ph.D student at the University of Waterloo, Canada, from December 2008 to December 2009. His research interests include cooperation communication and MAC design in ad hoc networks. He won the Best Paper Award from the IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) in 2012.