A graduate of Tsinghua University in Beijing, he joined Dr. Rock’s group at St. Jude’s Research Hospital for his first post-doctoral fellowship, where he worked on developing new antibiotic targets. He then joined Dr. Malley’s group as a postdoctoral fellow, rising to the level of Assistant Professor in 2012 and has been the recipient of NIH funding. He is the author of over 25 peer-reviewed publications in the field of bacterial genetics and vaccines and a co-inventor of the MAPS technology.