He earned his Ph.D. in Experimental Psychology with an emphasis in Cognitive Science at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas in 2014. He currently teaches undergraduate courses related to research methods, statistics, cognitive psychology, and biopsychology. He has received awards in teaching, such as the Frank Costin Memorial Award for Excellence for a collaborative project presented at the National Institute on the Teaching of Psychology in 2015 and the Students’ Choice for Psychology Faculty of the Year at California State University, Fullerton in 2016.