He is an Associate Member of the USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center and a Principle Investigator of USC Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine (courtesy). He received his Bachelor of Engineering in Mechanical Engineering (2001) and Master of Science in Biophysics (2004) from Tsinghua University of China. He earned his Ph.D. degree in Biomedical Engineering in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Columbia University in 2010. He completed his postdoctoral training in the Center for Engineering in Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital, from 2010-2014. He joined the USC faculty in 2015.