- Nankai University (A.B.)
- Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry (Ph.D. with Lixin Dai)
- The Scripps Research Institute (Postdoc with Jeffery Kelly)
- 2004 – Principal Investigator, Genomics Institute of the Novartis Research Foundation
- 2006 –Professor, Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry
- Research Interests: asymmetric catalysis, C-H functionalization, dearomatization.