Before joining Louisiana Tech, he was a postdoctoral scholar at Stanford University from 2014 to 2016. He received the PhD degree from Telecom ParisTech in 2013, the M.Sc. degree from Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications in 2010, and the B.Sc. degree from Tianjin University in 2007. His research interests include information theory and communication theory, as well as their applications in wireless networks, physical layer security, distributed storage, distributed computing, big data and bioinformatics.