He graduated from East China Normal University and received a Ph.D. degree in 2010. His interests include bioinformatics, computational biology, graph theory, and algorithm design. He has published over 30 research papers in some outstanding journals, including Journal of Proteome Research, PLoS One, Journal of Computational Chemistry, BMC Bioinformatics, and Theoretical Computer Science. He also works as a reviewer for Bioinformatics, BMC Bioinformatics, and Journal of Computational Chemistry.