He is also a core faculty at the Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems (NICO) and an affiliated faculty of Industrial Engineering & Management Sciences at the McCormick School of Engineering. Prior to joining Northwestern, he was an Assistant Professor of Information Sciences and Technology at the Pennsylvania State University and before that, a Research Staff Member at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center. His research has been published in such general audience journals as Science, and PNAS as well as top specialized venues in computer science and physics, and has been featured in the New York Times, Forbes, the Economist, the Guardian, the Washington Post, the Boston Globe, among other major global media outlets. He is a recipient of the AFOSR Young Investigator Award (2016).