After receiving a doctorate degree from Beijing University of Technology under the guidance of Professor Yunkang Sui in December, 2004, he worked for Altair company as a senior developer of the structural optimization software OptiStruct, in the United States. As a postdoctoral researcher, he worked for Tsinghua University, China. As an associate professor, he worked for Shenzhen Graduate School, Harbin Institute of Technology, China. His interests/research fields are structural optimization and structural health monitoring.