He is Deputy Director of the State Key Laboratory of Satellite Ocean Environmental Dynamics and received his PhD from the Shanghai Institute of Technical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, in 1999. He currently serves as China’s representative to the International Ocean Colour Coordinating Group (IOCCG) and was selected for the National High-Level Talents Special Support Program (“Ten Thousand Talents Program”) in 2014.
His research focuses on ocean remote-sensing imaging mechanisms, atmospheric correction, hyperspectral remote sensing, fisheries remote sensing, ocean colour inversion, dedicated software development, and the construction of remote-sensing systems. He has advanced the fundamental theory of ocean remote sensing, published three monographs, and authored more than 100 papers, including over 30 as first author. As first author, he published three consecutive papers in Remote Sensing of Environment, the top international journal in the field of remote sensing (impact factor 5.1).
He has contributed to the development of China’s indigenous satellite ocean remote-sensing technologies and assisted Academician Pan Delu in winning the Second Prize of the National Science and Technology Progress Award in 2013. He also contributed to the development of satellite-based fisheries remote-sensing applications in China and, as a principal contributor, received the Second Prize of the National Science and Technology Progress Award in 2008. He has received 11 provincial and ministerial science and technology awards.