He received his Ph.D. from University of Massachusetts, Amherst in 2007. Prior to that, he received his Master’s and Bachelor's Degrees in Civil Engineering from Virginia Tech. His research interests include sustainable and resilient transportation infrastructures, traffic operations, transit operations, and intelligent transportation systems. In addition, his research involves design and operations of work zones on freeways and arterials in addition to the driver’s response to those design elements. He is involved actively at the national level with the Institute of Transportation Engineers, the Intelligent Transportation Society of America’s Research, Integration, Training, and Education forum, and several committees of the Transportation Research Board.