Prior to joining University of Michigan in 2013 he was an Assistant Professor at University of North Texas. His research interests include heat transfer in microelectronics and nanostructures, thermal properties of thin films of new and existing materials, multimodal sensing of human behavior, computational modeling of forced and natural heat convection. He has published over 50 articles in peer reviewed journals and conference proceedings. He is the recipient of several awards, including the 2006 Harvey Rosten Award For Excellence for “outstanding work in the field of thermal analysis of electronic equipment”, the best paper award at the Semitherm conference in both 2013 and 2006, the Young Engineer of the Year from the North Texas Section of ASME (2006), a Leadership Award from SMU (2002), and a Valedictorian Award (1995).