He received his M.S. degree in electronic engineering from the Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics in China in 1982 and his Ph.D. degree in electronic engineering from Xi’an Electronic Science and Technology University in China in 1989. He was a postdoctoral fellow at McMaster University in Canada in 1993. He worked as an associate professor at the electronic engineering department of Xi’an Electronic Science and Technology University when he was in China