He was awarded Ph.D. degree in Computer Science in 2003 at City University of Hong Kong. Before joining Fudan University in July 2008, he was a postdoctoral fellow at Bioinformatics Center, Kyoto University. He was a visiting Scholar in UIUC (March 2013-March 2014), and a visiting associate professor in Kyoto University (July 2016-Nov 2016). His research focuses on developing and applying machine learning and data mining methods for Bioinformatics, especially biomedical text mining, immunological informatics, drug discovery and protein function prediction.