He receives his Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania and M.S. from the Rutgers University-New Brunswick. His research interests include multiple testing, statistical modelling, machine learning and data mining with applications to Bioinformatics and genetics. His recent research focuses on developing statistical models and data mining algorithms for analysis of high dimensional data. His research is funded by the National Institutes of Health, the Pheo Para Alliance, the Henry M. Jackson Foundation, and the Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation. His methodology works have been published in prestigious journals and conferences including JASA, AJHG, AOAS, Bioinformatics, Biostatistics, PLoS Genetics, NAR and NIPS. He is an editorial board member of PLoS ONE, Frontiers in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, and Frontiers in Applied Genetic Epidemiology.