His research interests include computational intelligence, information security and data privacy, machine learning and data mining. He has authored/co-authored over 70 referred papers on international conferences and journals, including top journals IEEE TEC,IEEE TETCI, IEEE TETC, IEEE TDSC, IEEE TPS and ACM TDAES. He is a junior associate editor of Frontiers of Computer Science (Higher Education Press and Springer). He have served as the guest co-editor of the special issues/sections for five journals, including IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computational Intelligence (IEEE),Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines(Springer), Connection Science (Taylor & Francis), International Journal of Computational Intelligence and Applications (World Scientific Press), Journal of Computer Science and Technology (Chinese Science Press and Springer).