2024 – Present

Chair Professor, Director of the Center for Interdisciplinary Studies, Westlake University

2011 – 2024

Chair Professor , Director of the Academy for Advanced Interdisciplinary Studies, Director of the Center for Quantitative Biology, Peking University

2005 – 2011

Tenured Full Professor, University of California, San Francisco (UCSF)

1991 – 2005

Research Staff Member, Senior Research Staff Member,

NEC Research Institute, Princeton

1988 – 1991

Postdoc, University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB)

1986 – 1988

Postdoc, Brookhaven National Laboratory

1986

Ph.D. degree, The University of Chicago

1981

B.S. degree, University of Science and Technology of China (USTC)