Between 2003 and 2007 I studied "Economics and International Trade" as a bachelor student at Shandong University of Science and Technology. After that, I got admitted to the three-year master program in "Corporate Management" and was under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Xinmin Liu. My master thesis is in Chinese and has the title "Study of Corporate Managerial Contract Design Based on Double Moral Hazard Prevention". 

In 2010 I got admitted to the four-year Ph.D. program at School of Management, Xi'an Jiaotong University. My track was "Management Science and Engineering" and I studied under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Yinfeng Xu. My doctoral thesis is in Chinese and entitled "Online Traveling Salesman Problem with Deadlines". I graduated in the summer of 2014 and got my doctorate degree in management. In 2016, my thesis won the excellent doctorate dissertations award both at Xi'an Jiaotong University and in Shaanxi Province. It is the only doctorate dissertation in the field of Management Science and Engineering on the provincial scale. 

I attended the Research Master program in Economics at Tilburg University between 2012 and 2014. After that, I pursued the doctorate degree in Economics and worked as a Ph.D. researcher from 2014 until 2017. My two supervisors are Prof. Dr. Peter M. Kort and Prof. Dr. Dolf Talman. In 2015, I visited my co-supervisor Prof. Dr. Verena Hagspiel at Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) from September until December. In 2017 I finished my Ph.D. dissertation "Investment under Uncertainty: Timing and Capacity Optimization", and successfully defended publicly on November 6th.

After my Ph.D. at Tilburg University, I was a postdoc researcher at Bielefeld University between 2017 and 2025. This position was funded by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), or the German Research Foundation. Together with Prof. Dr. Herbert Dawid, I worked on the C2 project Innovation dynamics under market uncertainty and financial constraints, which is a sub-project of the CRC(SFB) 1283 project Taming uncertainty and profiting from randomness and low regularity in analysis, stochastics and their applications.