Lixin attained his Bachelor of Computer Science, and Bachelor of Engineering with First Class Honours in Electrical & Electronic Engineering from the University of Western Australia in 2006. He worked as a software engineer for several years before attaining a PhD in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Western Australia, working as part of the Optical+Biomedical Engineering Laboratory, with the support of a Robert & Maude Gladden scholarship, in 2016. Lixin is a post-doctoral researcher with BRITElab, working on novel signal processing methods to improve imaging of biological tissues.