He led a team of 9 faculty, 12 graduate students, 5 undergraduate students and 2 full-time research associates, collaborating with industry engineers from Gestalt LLC (now part of Accenture) and managers from the USAF’s Electronic Systems Center on the Applied Research in Computing Enterprise Services (ARCES) program, CEET’s flagship research project funded by the Department of Defense. His current research is exploring parsing in a variety of forms, such as big data opinion mining, compiler analysis, positional characterization, textual analysis and data translation. He incorporates machine learning, natural language processing and sentiment analysis techniques into his parsing research.