He received the Ph.D. degree from Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China, in 2009. From November 2006 to November 2008, he was a Research Associate working in the Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics at Indiana University School of Medicine. His current research interests include bioinformatics algorithm design, next generation sequencing data analysis, transcriptional regulation, and post transcriptional regulation. He is an Editor in ISRN Genomics.