He received the B.Eng. degree in electrical engineering from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, in 2008. He received the M.S. degree in electrical engineering, the M.A. degree in applied mathematics, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA, in 2010, 2014, and 2015, respectively. Prior to joining the NC State faculty in 2017, he was a postdoctoral scholar at the University of California, Berkeley and Stanford University. His research interests include power system operation, energy economics, and data analytics for smart grids.