He got his bachelor degree at Tongji University, specialty in civil engineering in 2004. He entered graduate school with scholarship and finished his master course in 2006, and began the Ph.D study. In 2011, he got his doctor degree in Structural Engineering at Tongji University. From 2007 to 2009, he was in Civil and Environmental Engineering Department at the University of Southern California as a visiting scholar. His research interests are earthquake resistance and disaster reduction of structural engineering, and structural vibration control.