He received his BSc degree in transportation engineering from Shandong Jiaotong University in 2004 and his PhD degree in electronic engineering from Shandong University in 2009. He is the author of more than 20 journal papers. His current research interests include digital image processing, pattern recognition, and remote sensing image mosaicking. He is currently a visiting scholar at the USDA-ARS Southern Plains Agricultural Research Center in College Station, Texas, USA.