His research spans several areas of economics, including environmental economics, experimental economics, and decision making under risk and uncertainty. He has recently worked on studies on the interdependence of wildfire risk among homeowners living in the wildland urban interface and on the economic evaluation of river restoration projects. He was also instrumental in starting up an experimental economics lab at Cal Poly and is actively involved in running and conducting research through the lab. His recent experimental work concerns individual preferences for self-protection against risk, in isolation and in non-cooperative games. He holds a Ph.D. and M.A. in economics from the University of Colorado at Boulder and a Master of Engineering and B.S. in computer science from Cornell University.