He is a senior member of IEEE, and an associate/academic editor for BMJ Mental Health, IEEE TITS, IEEE TCSS, Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease (2021), and PLoS ONE. He was a theme issue editor for Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical and Engineering Sciences and the guest editor for a number of other journals. He is on the executive committee of the International Society of Digital Health, Hong Kong Society of Behavior Health, Systems Engineering Society of China, and the Hospital IoT Branch of China Association of Medical Equipment.

His research interests include medical informatics, AI in drug discovery, healthcare data analytics and network science. His research has been published in leading journals such as Nature Human Behaviour, Nature Communications, PNAS and MIS Quarterly, as well as featured in press such as The Washington Post, The New York Times, New York Public Radio, The Guardian and Ming Pao. He received The President’s Award (2022) and the Outstanding Research Award for Junior Faculty (2021) from CityU and the Andrew P. Sage Best Transactions Paper Award (2021) from IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society.