He obtained a bachelor's degree and a master's degree in hydrology and water resources from Chengdu University of Technology in 1989 and 1992 respectively, and a doctor's degree in engineering in hydrology and water resources from Hohai University in 1998. After completing postdoctoral research in Sichuan University in 2000, he went to Hefei University of Technology, mainly engaged in teaching and scientific research in the field of water resources system engineering. At present, he is a professor at Hefei University of Technology, an adjunct professor at Lanzhou University, Zhengzhou University and Huaihai Institute of Technology, a visiting professor at Inner Mongolia Agricultural University, a doctoral supervisor at Yangzhou University, an expert on project evaluation of the National Natural Science Foundation, an expert on China sci-tech journals, an editor-in-chief of three academic journals, an expert on 40 academic journals, and an expert on evaluation of water resources demonstration reports of construction projects of the Ministry of Water Resources. Theory and application of water resources system engineering;

Methods and applications of intelligent optimization, modeling, prediction, simulation, evaluation and decision analysis of complex systems. Engineering hydrology, stochastic hydrology, systems engineering, computational intelligence and its application.