- Joined HD in 2021 after being a visiting scholar at the Cyber Policy Initiative, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
- Guest researcher at the Center for International Strategy and Security at Tsinghua University and a retired colonel with the Chinese People’s Liberation Army
- Before retirement from the PLA in 2016, worked as a research fellow at the Center on China-America Defense Relations at the Academy of Military Science and was a senior fellow at the Pangoal Institution
- Research includes Asia-Pacific security issues, China’s defence policy and U.S.-China military-to-military relations with an emphasis of cybersecurity issues