He received his Ph.D. in Engineering from Purdue University, West Lafayette, USA, in December 2011. He worked as research intern in Siemens Corporate Research on 3D medical image processing. He then joined Riverain Technologies, a leader and technology innovator in the healthcare industry and beyond, as a Senior Research Scientist. His current research interests are in computer graphics, computer vision, image processing, and machine learning and their applications to multiple disciplines as diverse as engineering, medicine, biology, and social science. He has co-authored 20 refereed papers for journals and top tier conferences, of which he is the first author in nine. Some of his works have been widely reported by both national and international media, such as Purdue Newsroom, ScienceDaily, and Yahoo!