He is a core member of the new Stanford cross-campus institute ChEM-H. He is a UC Berkeley alumni Class ’12, with a PhD in Bioengineering. Before PhD, he obtained B.S. in Physics and Math from Tsinghua University, China, and Master in Physics from UC Berkeley working with Prof. Steven Chu. During his PhD work at Berkeley, he studied synthetic biology with Adam Arkin, and engineering of CRISPR for gene regulation co-advised by Adam Arkin and Jennifer Doudna. After PhD, he skipped postdoc training and joined UCSF as a Systems Biology Faculty Fellow and started his lab there since 2012. He joined Stanford faculty in 2014.