His research interests are artificial intelligence, machine learning, and data mining. He has published more than forty scientific papers on top-tier journals such as IEEE T-PAMI, T-IP, T-NNLS, T-SP, Neurocomputing, Genes, BMC Genomics, and top-tier conferences such as ICDM, IJCAI, ECCV, IJCNN, PAKDD, ICONIP, and ICASSP. He has won the best paper award of the ECCV 2014 VeCTaR workshop.