Renbin obtained his Bachelor degree in Physics at Peking University in 2001 and PhD degree in Astrophysics at University of California at Berkeley in 2007. He then worked as a postdoctoral scholar at University of Toronto and an assistant research scientist at New York University. In 2012, he joined the University of Kentucky as an Assistant Professor. He is an expert in utilizing spectroscopic galaxy surveys to study the stellar population, active galactic nuclei, and interstellar medium of external galaxies, and the environmental dependence of galaxy properties. He is the Survey Scientist for the SDSS-IV MaNGA survey, and also leads the MaNGA Stellar Library (MaStar) project.
