He received his B.S. degree in material chemistry in 2008 and Ph.D. degree with Professor Yuping Dong in material science in 2013 from Beijing Institute of Technology. He carried out a joint Ph.D. research program supported by CSC under the guidance of Professor Donglin Jiang at Institute for Molecular Science, Japan (2009-2012). He has worked in the field of aggregation induced emission and covalent organic framework during his Ph.D. study, and has published over 60 papers on these topics in the past 5 years on Chem. Soc. Rev., Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., J.Am. Chem. Soc.,Chem. Sci., Adv. Mater., Nat. Commun., and Chem. Commun., etc. His current research interests include functional porous materials and photo-electric functional materials.