His research interests are computer vision and machine learning. He completed his Ph.D. and B.E. in Huazhong University of Science and Technology in 2014 and 2009 respectively. During his Ph.D. period, he visited UCLA and Temple University where he was supervised by Prof. Alan Yuille and Prof. Longin Latecki, respectively. He also worked in the visual computing group in Microsoft Research Asia as an intern, supervised by Prof. Zhuowen Tu and collaborated with Prof. Yi Ma.