He received his bachelor degree from University of Science and Technology of China in 2002, and Ph.D. in Mathematics from Brown University in 2006 under the supervision of Prof. Chi-Wang Shu. Prior to joining OSU, he worked as a Postdoctoral Researcher at Courant Institute, New York University, a staff scientist at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, joint assistant professor at Universtiy of Tennessee Knoxville, and assistant professor at University of California Riverside. He works in the area of numerical analysis and scientific computing, wave propagation, computational fluid dynamics. His research focuses on the design, analysis and applications of accurate and efficient numerical methods for partial differential equations. He has received a CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation.