He is the Director of the Center for Computational Mathematics and Modeling. Before joining Temple, he received his PhD from the University of Kaiserslautern, Germany, and was an Instructor at MIT. He works in applied and computational mathematics with specific applications in traffic flow, fluid dynamics, radiation transport, materials, and bio-medical phenomena. His traffic flow research is centered around non-equilibrium phenomena (such as stop-and-go waves), and the nonlinear interplay of microscopic and macroscopic structures. One of his current projects, supported by NSF Cyber-Physical-Systems, is devoted to studying how a small fraction of automated vehicles on the road can dissipate and prevent stop-and-go traffic waves.