After receiving a PhD from the University of California, Berkeley in 2011, he worked as a postdoctoral fellow in RIKEN, Japan from 2011 to 2012. In 2013, he became an assistant professor at Tsinghua University, and then was promoted and became an associate professor in 2017. He also has held a joint researcher position at the Center for Emergent Matter Science at RIKEN since 2014. His research field is experimental condensed matter physics and materials science.