He was previously a post-doctoral fellow at the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He received an M.Sc. in Civil Engineering, an M.Sc. in Industrial Engineering, and a Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology. His research interests include: traffic flow theory and simulation, intelligent transportation systems, traffic sensing and information technology, and transportation logistics and optimization. He has published his research in the IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, the International Journal of Emergency Management, the Journal of Intelligent Transportation Systems: Technology, Planning, and Operations, and Applied Mathematical Modelling.