He is a Assistant Professor at School of Economic and Management of Dalian University of Technology. He holds a BSc in Business Management, and a MSc and a PhD in Management Science and Engineering from Northwestern Polytechnical University (NPU), and he conducts research in the fields of innovation management. He used to be a visiting PhD student at the Department of Management Engineering of the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) (December, 2018 to June, 2019), joining the group of Industrial Dynamics and Strategy in the division of Technology and Innovation Management, and Centre for Technology Entrepreneurship of the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) (September, 2019 to August, 2020).

He focuses on innovation management, such as global innovation network, technological impact, platform, corporate sustainability and so on. He has published several papers in Business Strategy and the Environment(ABS 3), Journal of Cleaner Production (ABS 2), Journal of Business and Industrial Marketing (ABS2), and Sustainable Production and Consumption (JCRQ1).