After completing his doctoral studies at the University of Georgia in 2015, he completed a two-year postdoctoral fellowship at CAAS. He was recently promoted to Assistant Professor after receiving a K01 Mentored Research Scientist Development Award from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism. The objectives of his research are to examine the interaction between social networks, micro-level milestones/transitions, and alcohol use among non 4-year college emerging adults, with the overarching goal to understand how social networks reinforce and maintain behavior over time. He has several first-author manuscripts in journals such as Addiction, Addictive Behavior, and Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs.