He received a PhD in Geophysics in 2012 at the University of Alaska Fairbanks where he studied volcanoes with GPS. From 2012-2014 he worked on earthquake rapid source modeling and the integration of real-time GNSS into earthquake early warning systems at the Berkeley Seismological Laboratory at the University of California, Berkeley. His research interests include the study of large earthquakes and warning systems through the combination of geodetic and seismic data sets.