Having received his BSc in 1985 in Jiangxi Normal University (China) in Physics, and MSc in Marine Hydrodynamics and Fluid Dynamics Test Techniques in 1990 at China Naval Academy and China Ship Scientific Research Centre (CSSRC), respectively, he has worked as an assistant lecturer in Nanchang College of Hydraulic Engineering for two years and then worked as senior research engineer at CSSRC in both theoretical and experimental hydrodynamics. He was the head of seakeeping basin at CSSRC before he moved to the UK for a PhD study in 2000.
He obtained his PhD in aerodynamics at the University of Glasgow in 2004, and then he has worked as a research associate for 6 years in the areas of unsteady aerodynamics for helicopters and wind turbines. In the research work, he proposed a new onset criterion of dynamic stall for helicopter and wind turbine applications, and based on which he further developed a dynamic stall model for the unsteady aerodynamics of helicopters and wind turbines. The dynamic stall model has been widely validated and utilised for different aerofoils for different applications in both low and high Mach numbers, for instance, for the NACA aerofoils in generalized utilization, for the NREL aerofoils in wind turbine applications, and for the RAE aerofoils in helicopter applications. The new developed dynamic stall model has found many applications, including the numerical tools for tidal/current turbines. A paper for a comparison of dynamic stall models on the vertical axis wind turbine published in AIAA Journal (Vol. 52, 2014) has shown the superiority of my dynamic model when compared to the experimental data and other dynamic stall models.
From late 2006 to early 2009, he worked in establishing a dataset (database) which contains about 1000GB data for more than 1000 sensors data on a quarter scale model of a helicopter tested in the largest wind tunnel, the DNW wind tunnel (FP6 GOAHEAD project).

He moved to University College Cork, Ireland in 2009, and worked as a senior research fellow and lead hydrodynamicist at Beaufort Research-Hydraulics and Maritime Research Centre (HMRC) in the development of offshore renewable energy, especially in wave energy. His major work involves in how to improve wave energy conversion efficiency and how to reduce the cost of offshore renewable energy production, both in innovations and fundamental research. He has involved in several European FP7 and Horizon 2020 projects, as well as the national projects, the industrial projects in the developments and optimizations of wave energy converters.
He moved to work at Lancaster University (UK) from 2021-2024 and is now working as a lecturer at South-East Technological University (SETU Carlow, Ireland).

Up to date, he has published one book (a monograph), 50 journal papers, 10 book chapters and 56 peer-reviewed conference papers.