He earned his Ph.D in computer science in 2011 from NUDT. From 2008 to 2010, He worked as a visiting PhD in the GrUVi lab of Simon Fraser University, supervised by Richard (Hao) Zhang. During 2012-2014, he conducted postdoctoral research at the VCC@SIAT, working with Baoquan Chen. During 2017-2018, he was a Visiting Research Scientist in the Vision and Robotics Group at Princeton University, working with Thomas Funkhouser and Szymon Rusinkiewicz. Kai is leading the iGraphics Lab @ NUDT, which conducts research in the areas of computer graphics and computer vision. The current directions of interest include data-driven shape analysis and modeling, 3D vision and robot perception & navigation, etc.