He graduated from the Georgia Institute of Technology and completed post-doctoral fellowship research at the Genetics department of Harvard Medical School. He has been an associate professor since 2015, working with teaching and research at Tianjin University. His main research focus has been investigating genome integrity and epigenetic modulation of DNA damage repair, both of which are hallmarks of cancers, using eukaryotic model systems including C. elegans (worms) and human cells. Since his graduate study, he has published numerous high-impact journals and achieved his research funding, including the recent NSFC general grant.