I was born in a small village, Henan province, China, where I grew up and received education. Our family are farmers here, planting wheat, corn, as well as peanut. I spent my happy childhood with my younger sister, younger cousins. I love my hometown!

After that, I was admitted to Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST), Wuhan, China, summer of 2005, to study Bioinformatics, following Profs. Yanhong Zhou and Bifeng Liu. Since then, I gradually went into the RNA and (epi)genomics world. After the college, I was very lucky to be recommended to carry my postgraduate career at the Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing. My supervisor was Prof. Runsheng Chen, who is one of the pioneers in the fields of noncoding RNA and bioinformatics in China. There I had great memories of working together with excellent scientists, such as Dr. Xiaopeng Zhu, Dr. Geir Skogerbø, Dr. Yunfei Wang. The first 3 years, my research theme was identification and functional characterization of intermediate-size ncRNAs in C. elegans, then the following two more years I turned to investigate the functional long noncoding RNAs in cancer and development. With this, I completed my Ph.D. dissertation and earned the Ph.D. degree in the spring of 2015.

I was also fortunate to continue my postdoctoral research at the department of biochemistry, University of Oxford, UK, co-supervised by Profs Neil Brockdorff and Chris Ponting. Currently, I am working on the research concerning the molecular mechanisms underlying Xist RNAs in X Chromosome Inactivation, epigenetic regulation of gene transcription.  With computational and molecular experimental skills, I am now quite interested in (epi)genetics in development and disease, also dedicate myself to understand the gene regulation by RNA m6A modification. I spend lots of spare time reading (biography, poetry, history, geography, ...), doing sports, and watching TV program.