He received the B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in Department of Automatic Test and Control from Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT), Harbin, China, in 2003 and 2005, respectively. During 2001 and 2003, he also minored in the Major of Computer Science and Technology in HIT. He received the Ph.D. degree in major of measurement and instrumentation from HIT in 2010. As a visiting scholar, he implemented collaborated research in the System and Industrial Engineering (SIE) Department, University of Arizona (UofA), Tucson, AZ, USA, during May 2013 to June 2014. His research interests include automatic test and intelligent information processing, time series analysis and prediction, Data-driven PHM, lithium-ion battery prognostics, machine learning for PHM, data mining for complex systems, etc.