He earned degrees and institutional fellowships from Yale University and the USC Thornton School of Music and is currently pursuing a PhD in music composition at UC Berkeley. As a recipient of the Critical Language Scholarship and Chinese Cultural Scholarship, he studied abroad at the Chinese University of Hong Kong and the Shanghai Conservatory from 2007 to 2008. During the 2012-2013 season he will have premieres at the Berkeley Symphony’s Under Construction concerts, San Francisco Girls Chorus’s Spring Concert, and National Queer Arts Festival. He will study at the Atlantic Music Festival Institute Composition Program this summer.