He received his bachelor's degree in physics from Nankai University in 1987, master's degree in laser physics from Nankai University in 1993, and doctor's degree in optical Engineering from Nankai University in 1996. From 1998 to 2000, he was invited to do postdoctoral research in electronic Engineering department of City University of Hong Kong, and returned to the university in early 2000. He is currently a professor and doctoral tutor at the Institute of Modern Optics. He is mainly engaged in the research of microstructure THz functional devices, THz time-domain spectroscopy, digital image processing and the application of artificial neural network in pattern recognition.