He received his bachelor's degree from the Department of Biology of Peking University in 1988, his master's degree from the Institute of Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1991, his master's degree from the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology of the University of Connecticut in 1994, and his master's degree in Molecular and Cellular Biology from the University of Connecticut in 1997.

Department of Ph.D.

From 1997 to 1999, he worked as a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Connecticut. In 1999, he became the director of the Bioinformatics Laboratory of the Biotechnology Center of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). In 2000, he served as a part-time assistant in the Department of Zoology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Professor, he served as a part-time researcher at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the National Supercomputing Center (NCSA) in 2002. From 2003 to March 2006, he served as a visiting researcher at the Shanghai Bioinformatics Research Center. In April 2006, he served as a researcher at the Shanghai Bioinformatics Research Center.

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In June 2007, he joined the Key Laboratory of Systems Biology, Shanghai Academy of Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, as a researcher in the Hundred Talents Program, and was jointly responsible for the bioinformatics platform.

He is a member of the International Society for Computational Biology and a member of the editorial board of Genome Letter. He has received the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) Biogenomic Research Award, the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) Dermatology Research Center Award and the NCSA Teacher Award.

Published more than 30 scientific papers in authoritative international scientific magazines.