He has lectured in the United States, Germany, Britain, France and other countries for many times and engaged in international cooperation research. He has successively presided over and undertaken the German National Natural Science Foundation (DFG), the British National Natural Science Foundation (EPSRC), the European Information Technology Professional Committee (ESPRIT), the national key scientific and technological research plan from the Sixth Five-Year Plan to the Tenth Five-Year Plan, the national major basic research plan of 973, the guiding project of the national 863 high-tech research and development plan, the national science and technology support plan and the national natural science and technology. Research projects funded by national defense pre-research fund, State Power Company, China Three Gorges Project Development Corporation, Xuji Electric Co., Ltd. and other scientific research institutions and enterprises. In-depth research work has been carried out in the fields of information system, heterogeneous cluster network, spatial information modeling and analysis, WebGIS-based decision support system for optimal dispatching of hydropower energy, analysis, diagnosis, control and simulation technology of hydropower energy complex system.
In 2005, he won the special prize for scientific and technological progress in Hubei Province1; In 2004, he won the second prize of National Science and Technology Progress Award,1; The first prize of scientific and technological progress of the Ministry of Education in 20031; The first prize of scientific and technological progress in Hubei province in 20021; The first prize of scientific and technological progress of the Ministry of Education in 20021; 1999 first prize of scientific and technological progress of China Ministry of Machinery 1 project; 1 won1the first prize of scientific and technological progress of the Ministry of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering in 1995; 1992 won the second prize of scientific and technological progress of the Ministry of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, 1 project; 1989 won the second prize of scientific and technological progress of China Oil and Gas Corporation, 1 item. In 2004, he won the second prize of Hubei teaching achievement 1. 1996 won 1 national invention patents.
He has published 2 monographs and more than 250 papers in important academic journals at home and abroad, among which he has been included by SCI, EI and 100 times.