His work lies at the learning, control, and design of autonomous systems with an emphasis on connected automated vehicles (CAVs). During his time at Michigan, he was committed to developing autonomous cars, sensor-level augmented reality (AR), and V2X systems at Mcity. He led 4 research projects with total funding of $1.42M dollars sponsored by TRI, Mcity, Denso, and Version.

His research resulted in 24 peer-reviewed journal papers and 10 conference papers. The citation number in Google scholar is >900 with an H-index of 18. In 2021, he received the National Science Fund for Outstanding Young Scholars from NSFC. He also received the Best Paper Award of the 14th International Symposium on Advanced Vehicle Control (first author, 3 out of 230 papers, 2018), NSK Sino-Japan Outstanding Paper in Mechanical Engineering (first author, 2015), the Excellent Ph.D. Dissertation Award of Tsinghua University (2016), and National Scholarship for three-time in 2008, 2009, and 2014.