He was doing very well in his studies too, and progressed smoothly from NTNU attached middle school to the chemical engineering department at National Taiwan University. After graduation he took a masters degree in chemical engineering at the University of California, Berkeley, and a doctorate at Carnegie Mellon University.
功課至此也開展順利，由師大附中保送台大化工系，畢業後赴美國加州大學柏克萊分校取得化工碩士，再於卡乃基邁倫大學拿到博士學位。