He earned his B.S. (1998) and M.S. (2001) degrees from South China University of Technology (SCUT), and a Ph.D. degree from University of Connecticut (2007). After working as a postdoctoral researcher at University of Pennsylvania (UPenn), he joined CBE, HKUST at 2012. His research mainly focuses on materials chemistry, materials physics and the nanofabrication of semiconductor nano-bioelectronics.