I received my bachelor degree on Biochemistery from Xiamen University in China. After that, I was accepted as a research assistant in the National Laboratory of Medical Molecular Biology in Beijing, China where I worked on immunology in Dr. Dexian Zheng's laboratory. It is under the guidance of Dr. Zheng that I became interested in the biology of T lymphocytes. I then joined Dr. Shyr-Te Ju's laboratory at Boston University School of Medicine as a Ph. D student to obtain further academic training. I worked on the roles of Fas/FasL and IL-2 in normal and autoimmune T cell responses during lupus development. From Dr. Ju, I learned how to think and how to find and solve scientific problems. Working with Dr. Ju, I became more interested in the cellular and molecular mechanisms of T cell responses under various normal and pathological conditions.

After I received my Ph.D. degree, I joined Dr. Vijay K. Kuchroo's laboratory as a postdoctoral fellow to pursue a higher training. Currently, I'm studying the regulation of EAE by Th2 specific molecules, Tim-1 and Tim-2, two members of Tim family, which were recently found by this laboratory.