1984 and 1987 obtained the bachelor's degree and master's degree from the power engineering department of Huazhong Institute of Technology (now Huazhong University of Science and Technology) respectively;
1993 obtained the Ph.D. degree of department of mechanical engineering from the University of California, Berkeley (studied under Professor Tian Changlin, then president of Berkeley);
1993- 1997 as an assistant professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science of Duke University;
1997-200 1, Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering, UCLA.
In 200 1 year, he was transferred to department of mechanical engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and now he is Professor Carl Richard Soderberg.
He is an outstanding youth fund winner of National Natural Science Foundation (NSF), an academician of Guggenheim Foundation, an academician of American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) and an academician of American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). 20 12 was elected APS Fellow.
He has successively served as the editor-in-chief of five international academic journals on heat transfer, nanotechnology and energy technology, the head of the advisory group of the nanotechnology society of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, the director of the Pappalardo micro-nano engineering laboratory of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the director of the solid solar thermoelectric energy conversion research center funded by the Frontier Energy Research Center of the US Department of Energy.