Ruofei Cheng was born in LuAn, Anhui province, China in 1991. He completed B.Sc. degree from Anhhui Normal University in 2013. In 2018, he received his Ph.D. degree under the supervision of Prof. Zuowei Xie at Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry (SIOC), Chinese Academy of Sciences. After graduation, He continued his postdoctoral research in Prof. Zuowei Xie’s lab from 2018 to 2020. His former research was mainly focused on the selective cage functionalization of o-carborane.