Peng has obtained his master degree in Biochemistry and Molecular biology from the School of life science, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China in 2013. His master thesis was focus on the difference between chloroplast and plastid division under the supervision of Prof. Hongbin Wang. In 2015, he joined the Shanghai Center for Plant Stress Biology (PSC) as a research assistant in Plant Molecular Nutrition Group under the supervision of Dr. Mingguang Lei, where he worked on endocytosis mechanism of the phosphate transporters. In February 2019 he started his PhD research in the lab of Dr. Jenny Russinova to work on endocytic regulation of receptor kinase-mediated signaling in Arabidopsis funded a CSC scholarship.