After growing up in Hong Kong, I attended the Chinese University of Hong Kong majoring in mathematics. I received my PhD from the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, in 2011, under the direction of Wei-Ming Ni.  After that, I came to Ohio State as Zassenhaus Assistant Professor in 2011, then spent two years at Mathematical Biosciences Institute with support from the Croucher Foundation. I joined the faculty at the Department of Mathematics in 2014.

In 2022, I gave a series of lecture on reaction-diffusion equations and mathematical ecology at the Institut Henri Poincaré, the materials and videos are available here. The lecture note is published with Springer Cham.