He obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin in 2002, and conducted postdoctoral research under EM Marcotte at Center for Systems and Synthetic Biology, University of Texas at Austin. Currently his research focuses on big biological data mining, integrative gene network modeling, and systems genetics. He is the developer of a series of gene-network analysis platforms such as AraNet, WormNet and HumanNet and spearheads the field of omics-data integration.