I received my B.S. degree from Wuhan University, China  and Ph.D. in 2008 from Pennsylvania State University, co-mentored by Drs. Masatoshi Nei and Hong Ma. I conducted my postdoctoral research from 2008 to 2012 in Dr. Wen-Hsiung Li's lab at University of Chicago. Before joining the faculty at SLU in the Fall of 2014, I was a Huxley Faculty Fellow at  Rice University.