Before he joined the University of Georgia in August 2012, he was an Assistant Research Professor at the Georgia Washington University (GWU) after he got his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering in 2011 from GWU. He has published more than 100 peer-reviewed papers in top international journals such as ACS Nano, Advanced Sciences, Nanoscale, Carbon, Brain Structure and Functions, Cerebral Cortex, etc. He was the recipient of the 2017 International Conferences on Computational Methods (ICCM) Young Investigator Award and the recipient of 2018 College of Engineering Excellence in Instruction. Currently his work is funded by several NSF grants, and his research interests focus on the computational biomechanics, bio-inorganic interfaces, and multiscale brain modeling.