He recieved his B.S. in Dalian University of Technology in 1993, M.S. in Computer Aided Design from the Nanjing University of Science and Technology in 1996, and Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Nanjing University in 2000. He won the IBM China Visitorship Program in 2003 and visited the ETI in HKU from June to September 2003. He visited the University of Western Sydney in Dec, 2004, the Hong Kong Baptist University from Jan., 2005 to Feb., 2005 and Massey University, New Zealand in Dec, 2006.