PhD, professor. He obtained his PhD degree from the Pennsylvania State University in 2007. He was a postdoctoral fellow at the Pennsylvania State University from 2009 to 2010 and an assistant research scientist at Johns Hopkins University from 2011 to 2014. From 2015, he has been a professor at Beijing Institute of Nanoenergy and Nanosystems. His primary research interests focus on device applications of novel electronic materials, especially soft electronic materials and ferroelectric-based materials, including piezoelectric nanowires and nanoparticle-based nanocomposites, piezoelectric nanogenerators, and BioMEMs sensors. He has authored over 70 publications in peer-reviewed journals, including Science, Advanced Materials, Advanced Functional Materials, ACS Nano, Nano Energy, Advanced Sciences, Applied Physics Letters and IEEE Transaction, Sensors and Actuators. He holds two issued US patents and six issued China Patents. His papers have been cited more than 5000 times.