The main research field lie in the area of image processing and analysis, pattern recognition and machine learning. Recently, he has participated 3 projects from National Science Foundation, several projects from 863 Hi-tech project, International Science and Technology Cooperation and National Science-technology support Plan. He has published more than 50 scientific papers in international or Chinese journals and conferences, and he obtained the first, second and third prizes of Hubei Science and Technology Progress Award, respectively. He received the title of National Excellent Courses for teaching Assembly language programming