He received his B.E. and M.S. degrees in Chemical Engineering from Tsinghua University in 1999 and 2001, respectively, and his Ph.D. degree in Materials Science & Engineering from Northwestern University in 2005. He was a postdoctoral associate in cancer biology at Northwestern University, and Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research and Department of Chemical Engineering at MIT from 2006 to 2012. He has published 30 papers in Journals such as PNAS, Nano Letters, ACS Nano, and Advanced Materials. His current research focuses on the investigation of fundamental nanomaterial-cell interactions and the development of new biomaterials for immunotherapy.