He received the B.S. degree from Ningxia University, Ningxia, China, in 1998, the M.E. degree from the same university in 2004, and the Ph.D. degree from Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing, China, in 2007, respectively. Now, he is the Dean of the Department of Management Science and Engineering. His research at present concentrates on financial engineering, risk management, uncertain decision, and intelligent optimization algorithm. He has published over 40 papers in reputable journals including the Applied Mathematics Letters Journal, the Mathematical Problems in Engineering Journal, the Iranian Journal of Fuzzy Systems, the Journal of Intelligent and Fuzzy Systems, and the Abstract and Applied Analysis Journal. He acted as a referee for various first-class international scientific journals.