He received the Ph.D. degree in information engineering from the School of Computer Application Technology, Jiangnan University, Wuxi, China, in 2018. He is currently a full Associate Professor with the Department of Medical Informatics, Nantong University, Nantong, China. He has worked as a Research Assistant and a Postdoctoral Fellow with the Department of Computing and the Department of Health Information Technology, the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong from 2017 to 2021. He has authored or coauthored more than 40 papers in international/national journals including IEEE TFS, IEEE TSMCA, IEEE TITS, IEEE TCSS, ACM TOIT, ACM/IEEE TCBB, KNOWLEDGE-BASED SYSTEMS, and INFORMATION FUSION, etc. His main research interests include pattern recognition and Medical Informatics.