He is the Associate Director of the Neuroscience Statistics Research Laboratory at Massachusetts General Hospital. He received his A.B. in Engineering Sciences, summa cum laude, from Harvard College in 1996, his M.S. in Electrical Engineering from MIT in 1998, and his Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering from MIT in 2005. He is a Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering, and is a recipient of the prestigious National Institutes of Health Directors New Innovator Award, the only researcher within the field of anesthesiology to have received this award.