He is a member of the Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (CBCB) and has a joint appointment in the University's Institute for Advanced Computer Studies (UMIACS). He received his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin in Computer Science in 2008, held a post-doctoral fellowship in Biostatistics in the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health (2008-2010) and started at the University of Maryland in 2010.