He received a PhD in computer science from the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. His research interests include machine learning, data mining, and biomedical informatics. He is an associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence. He has won numerous awards from Arizona State University and was a recipient of an NSF CAREER Award. His papers have also been recognized at the International Conference on Machine Learning, KDD, and the SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (SDM).