He received the B.S. degree in biophysics from the University of Science and Technology of China in 1994, and the Ph.D. degree in biomedical engineering from the University of Southern California in 2003. His research interests include nonlinear systems analysis, cortical neural prosthesis, electrophysiology of the hippocampus, and development of novel modeling techniques incorporating both parametric and nonparametric modeling methods. He is a member of the American Statistical Association, the Biomedical Engineering Society, the IEEE, and the Society for Neuroscience.