He received his B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from Xidian University (China), M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from Tsinghua University (China), and Ph.D. degree in Computer Engineering from Santa Clara University (USA) in 2006. His research interests are in the field of video coding, specifically in the areas of rate control, motion estimation, intra prediction, development of video coding standards, and image/video sparse coding. He has 12 publications and an adopted standard contribution. Before joining SCU in 2015, he worked as a software engineer in developing h.264/h.265 video codec. His recent research concerns proposals of H.266 and sparse coding.