He received his Ph.D. degree at the Institute for Nutritional Sciences, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China, in 2014. Currently, he is a professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Xi’an Jiaotong University Health Science Center. His research interests include precision nutritional intervention in weight control and the effects of nutrition, lifestyle, obesity phenotypes, genetics, and their interactions on the development of cardio-metabolic diseases, including type 2 diabetes and metabolic syndrome.