He has been awarded the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) Endowed Professorship in Power Systems Engineering. He received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China, in 1997 and 2002, respectively. In 2006, he received his Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago. From 2006-2009, he was a senior research associate at the Robert W. Galvin Center for Electricity Innovation at Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago. He joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Mississippi State University as an Assistant Professor in Fall 2009.