His primary research interest is in Smart manufacturing and the use of advanced Human-Computer Interface technology to improve the intelligence of manufacturing systems. He is also interested in the Computer-aided design and studying technologies involved in CAD systems, e.g. reverse engineering, 3D model retrieval, gesture etc. He completed his PhD in 2005 from the Northwestern Polytechnical University in Xian, China. He has been a visiting researcher at the HIT Lab New Zealand!