Dr. Xing received his Bachelor Degree in Chemistry from Xinjiang Normal University 1994, and Ph.D. Degree from Nanjing University in 2000, respectively. After that, he moved to the Department of Chemistry, at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) as a research staff. In 2003, Dr. Xing went to the Crump Institute of Molecular Imaging at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and the Molecular Imaging Program at Stanford University (MIPS) to pursue his post-doc research training. In Dec. of 2005, he started his independent research career at the Division of Chemistry & Biological Chemistry (CBC), School of Physical & Mathematical Sciences (SPMS), Nanyang Technological University (NTU), where he was promoted to a tenured Associate Professor in 2011. From 2011 to 2018, Dr. Xing was holding the appointments as Deputy Head in CBC and Assistant Chair in SPMS for academic education. In 2019, Dr. Xing was officially installed as Full Professor in NTU.