He graduated from Department of Physics of Nankai University in 1952, and from then became a faculty member of the same university.
Career
From 1985 to 1995 he served as the president of Nankai University. In 1991 he was elected as a member of Chinese Academy of Sciences. His research focused on white-light optical processing, optical pattern recognition, color film archive storage, false color coding and optical neural networks.[1][2]