He received the B.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the School of Information Science and Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing, China, in 2010 and 2015, respectively. From 2015 to 2016, he was a Research Associate at the University of Kent, U.K. He held the position of Senior Research Associate at Queen Mary University of London, U.K., from 2016 to 2019. From 2019 to 2021, he was a lecturer at the same university. In 2021, he became a full professor at Southeast University. 

His research interests mainly include reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS), intelligent reflection surfaces (IRS), ultra-reliable low latency communication (URLLC), machine learning, UAV, the Internet of Things, and mobile edge computing. He has published over 120 IEEE journal papers. He is currently an Editor of IEEE Wireless Communication Letters, IEEE Communications Letters, and IEEE ACCESS. He serves as the guest editor for IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications on the special issue on xURLLC in 6G: Next Generation Ultra-Reliable and Low-Latency Communications. He also serves as a leading guest editor of IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing (JSTSP) Special Issue on Advanced Signal Processing for Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface-Aided 6G Networks, leading guest editor of IEEE Vehicular Technology Magazine on the special issue on Backscatter and Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface Empowered Wireless Communications in 6G, a leading guest editor of the IEEE Open Journal of Vehicular Technology on the special issue of Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface Empowered Wireless Communications in 6G and Beyond, and a leading guest editor of the IEEE ACCESS Special Issue on Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface Aided Communications for 6G and Beyond. He is a workshop organizer in IEEE ICCC 2021 on the topic of Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces for Next Generation Wireless Communications (RIS for 6G Networks), and a workshop organizer in IEEE Globecom 2021 on the topic of Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces for future wireless communications. He is currently the workshops and symposiums officer for the Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces Emerging Technology Initiative. He is the workshop chair for IEEE WCNC 2024. He serves as a TPC member for numerous conferences, such as ICC and GLOBECOM, and as the Student Travel Grant Chair for ICC 2019.