Previously, he was a Simons Postdoctoral Fellow at Yale University and an Affiliate at the Center for Research on Computation and Society (CRCS) at Harvard University. He received his PhD in Computer Science from Boston University under the supervision of John Byers and Michael Mitzenmacher (from Harvard). He is broadly interested in problems lying in the intersection of marketing, computer science, and economics, and a lot of his work has focused on large scale empirical studies of internet markets, including online advertising, crowd-sourced reviews, and daily deals.