Since arriving at Mason in 2008, he has taught and developed a variety of graduate courses on data mining, computer architecture, and biological sequence analysis. A rising star in his discipline, he won his department’s Outstanding Teaching Award in 2012, is the principal investigator for Mason’s NSF-funded Machine Learning in Biomedical Informatics (MLBio+) Laboratory, and co-wrote an OSCAR-funded proposal to revise and integrate scholarship into the Computer Science undergraduate curriculum.