Formerly a university instructor, he was recruited by the lab after presenting a monograph called "Technologically Advanced Countries and Imaginatively Advanced Countries" at a conference organized two years ago by the Center for SF Studies at National Chiao Tung University.
原在大學授課的他，因為兩年前在交大科幻研究中心主辦的研討會上發表〈科技大國 VS. 科幻大國〉論文，而被網羅至創意中心。