He received his Ph.D. in Information Technology from Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey in 2013, the M.S. degree in Signal and Information Processing from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) in 2008, and the B.E. degree in Information Engineering from Xi'an Jiao Tong University in 2005. He received the ICDM-2011 Best Research Paper Award, Excellence in Academic Research (one per school) at Rutgers Business School in 2013, and the Dissertation Fellowship at Rutgers University in 2012. He has published prolifically in refereed journals and conference proceedings, such as IEEE TKDE, ACM TOIS, ACM TKDD, ACM TIST, ACM SIGKDD, and IEEE ICDM. His works have been supported by UoA, NSF and NIH.