He received a PhD in operations research from MIT in 2009, a PhD in mathematics from the University of Notre Dame in 2006 and a Bachelor of Science degree in applied math from Tsinghua University in 2002. His research interest includes operations management and nonlinear optimization. He has published in leading journals such as operations research, production and operations management, and SIAM Journal on optimization. He received a finalist award in 2009 INFORMS George E. Nicholson Student Paper Competition, a third prize in best paper competition of the seventh International Conference of Chinese Scholars Association for Management Science and Engineering in 2014, and research excellence award by college of business at City University of Hong Kong in 2015.