He received his B.S. degree in mechanical engineering in 1996 from Nanchang University, Nanchang, China, and his M.S. degree in environmental engineering in 2003 and his Ph.D. degree in mechanics in 2006 from Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China. His main research interests include smart material and structure, vibration damping and control, piezoelectric structures and devices, waves, metamaterial, and bubble dynamics.