after completing his post-doc engagement in jan. 2010, he returned to china as a lecturer with the school of electronics and information technology (then school of information science and technology, sist), sun yat-sen university (sysu). from 2011 and 2016, he became an associate professor and a professor of the university, respectively. from 2013, he became the associate head of department of electronic and communication engineering (ece). from 2017 - 2020, he was the deputy dean of the school of electronics and communication engineering. during 2011 - 2012, he was a visiting researcher with the institute of network coding, the chinese university of hong kong. from jul. - oct. 2015, he was visitor to the institute of communications engineering, ulm university, germany. from oct. 2015 - jun. 2016, he was a visiting associate professor of the department of electrical engineering, university of notre dame, u.s. now, he is the chair of ieee information theory society guangzhou chapter and ieee information theory society board of governors conference committee. he is a member of ieee information theory society board of governors external nominations committee and cie information theory society. he is serving as an associate editor of ieee transactions on communications. his research interests include information theory, error-correction codes and data communications. he likes reading and photography.