苏州科技大学数理学院教授，国际线性代数学会会员, 美国数学评论评论员，中国教育数学学会常任理事, 江苏省运筹学会理事，上海大学《国际张量与矩阵分析研究中心》学术委员会委员，2012年度苏州市高校院所紧缺型人才。1984-1988在安徽大学数学系就读本科，1988-1991年在安徽大学就读硕士研究生并获硕士学位，毕业后在安徽大学数学系留校任教，1995.02-1997.12月在中国科技大学数学系攻读博士研究生并获理学博士学位(导师李乔教授/李炯生教授), 博士毕业后经人才引进回安徽大学工作，2001年被遴选为硕士生导师。2002-2004国家留学基金委公派赴以色列理工大学(Technion-IIT)数学系从事博士后合作研究(合作导师Abraham Berman); 2010.03-2010.06先后访问美国太平洋大学、美国San Jose州立大学和斯坦福大学，2013、2014、2015、2016、2017年访问香港理工大学应用数学系。

主要从事张量计算、高维大数据统计分析、随机张量、完全正张量、完全正伪图与完全正矩阵、范德蒙张量及张量在统计模型的应用等方面的研究

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