He received the B.S. and M.S. degerees in Communication Engieering and Signal & Information Processing from Wuhan University of Technology, China in 2006 and 2008, respectively. He received the Ph.D. in Computer Science from Auburn University, USA in 2012. His research interests include parallel and distributed systems, storage systems, fault tolerance, reliability evaluation,and wireless networks. His research is supported by the China National Science Foundation, Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China, Hunan Province National Science Foundation, China Postdoctoral Science Foundation and Hunan University.