Zhongxing was born and raised in Shanghai, China. He obtained his B.Sc. degree from Peking University in 2012 under the supervision of Professor Jianbo Wang and Yan Zhang. He conducted his graduate study in the laboratory of Professor Guangbin Dong at the University of Texas, Austin (2012-2016), and University of Chicago (2016-2017). His research in the Dong group focused on the development of a new palladium-catalyzed redox cascade for the direct β-functionalization of ketones. Upon the completion of his Ph.D. thesis, he joined the laboratory of Professor Barry M. Trost at Stanford University as a postdoctoral fellow and studied the cycloaddition reactions involving Pd-heteroallyl intermediates. August 2019 Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Hong Kong 2017 - 2019 Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Chemistry, Stanford University 2016 - 2017 Ph.D. University of Chicago 2012 - 2016 Research Assistant, Department of Chemistry,University of Texas at Austin 2008 - 2012 B.Sc. Peking University