He is also the Director of Graduate Program in the CSEP department, and served as a member of the Strategic Planning Committee for UofM-Flint for the year 2004-2005. He received B.S. in Applied Physics from Columbia University, New York in 1982; M.S. in Physics from University of Michigan, Ann Arbor in 1984; M.S. in Management of Technology from University of Minnesota in 1994 and Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering from Michigan State University, East Lansing in 2004.