He received his Ph.D. in Electrical and Systems Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania in 2015, and was subsequently a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Georgia Institute of Technology affiliated with both the School of Electrical & Computer Engineering and the School of Biological Sciences. His research interests are in the areas of distributed optimization, game theory and control theory. His current research focuses on game theoretic modeling and optimization of multi-agent systems in biological, communication and energy networks.