He is an executive committee member of the Center for Spatially Integrated Social Science and a faculty affiliate/advisor for the Quantitative Methods for Social Sciences graduate emphasis at UC Santa Barbara. His research is broadly focused on modeling local labor market dynamics in an interregional setting. Specific research themes related to local labor markets include modeling occupational migration and mobility processes, studying the economic effects of depopulation, and modeling agglomeration as spatial point process. He is currently engaged in research projects funded by the U.S. Department of Labor and the National Science Foundation.