Received his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from Peking University, where he studied from 2009 to 2014. His research focused on cross-media retrieval.

Began his industry career at Google, first as a Software Engineer (2015-2017) and later as a Researcher at Google Brain (2017-2023), contributing to major AI projects.

Became a Senior Staff Research Scientist and Tech Lead Manager at Google DeepMind in Zürich, leading a multimodal research group focused on models like SigLIP and PaliGemma.

Announced he was joining OpenAI to help co-build its new Zürich office as a Member of Technical Staff.

Announced his move to join Meta's new superintelligence research team, Meta Superintelligence Labs (MSL), along with former colleagues from OpenAI and Google.