He completed his PhD from Peking Union Medical College in 1999 and Post-doctoral training in tumor molecular biology at the University of Michigan in 2003. He has over 15 years of research experience in identification and characterization of molecular genetic alterations including protein profiles, autoantibody profiles, gene mutations, DNA copy number changes by SNP, DNA methylation, gene signatures by mRNAs, microRNA profiles, circRNAs and long non-coding RNAs in lung cancer using functional genomic, proteomics and bioinformatics approaches with more than 80 papers in reputed journals.