His interests are within Bioinformatics, Computational Biology and Network Science. He has published over 50 technical papers in the refereed journals and conference proceedings such as in Bioinformatics, PLOS Computational Biology, Nucleic Acids Research, Proteomics, BMC Systems Biology, BMC Bioinformatics, Physical Review E. Due to the contributions, he was awarded with several awards including Lu Jia-Xi Young Investigator Award (2013), National Excellent PhD thesis Award (2010), Special Presidential Prize of Chinese Academy of Science (2008), Chen Jingrun Future Star (2011), and the Member of Youth Innovation Promotion Association of Chinese Academy of Science (2011).