He received his Ph.D. degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering at the University of California, San Diego. Prior to that, he received M.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Saskatchewan, Canada (2009), and B.Eng. in Computer Science & Technology from Northwestern Polytechnic University, China (2006). He worked as a Research Intern at Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories and NEC Laboratories America, respectively, in 2012 and 2013. His research interests focus on dynamic systems and control with application to energy management, environmental observation and mechatronics. He was selected as a Gordon Engineering Leadership Scholar (2010).