He is also the Assistant Director of the National Institute of Statistical Sciences (NISS). He received his B.Sc. in Statistics from Peking University in 2008 and his Ph.D. in Statistics from the University of Minnesota in 2012. He was a postdoctoral research associate at Princeton University from 2012-2013. He is an Elected Member of the International Statistical Institute (ISI) and a recipient of Bernoulli Society (BS) 2019 New Researcher Award. His research areas include high-dimensional statistics, optimization, econometrics, and statistical applications in biomedical science and geoscience.