He received his Ph.D. in Management Information Systems from the University of Arizona. He studies data-driven business analytics with research methods and tools drawn from reference disciplines including Management Science (e.g., optimization) and Computer Science (e.g., Machine Learning). He has published in business journals such as Operations Research, Information Systems Research, INFORMS Journal on Computing, and Journal of Management Information Systems as well as computer science outlets including IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, ACM Transactions on Information Systems, and ACM Transactions on Internet Technology. He serves as an AE of Decision Sciences and co-chairs annual Utah Winter Conference on Business Intelligence.