He is also head of the Auditory Research Laboratory. He received his PhD in Bioengineering from the University of Pennsylvania and was a post-doctoral fellow at Stanford and Caltech with a focus on neurobiology. Following post-doctoral training, he established a laboratory at Dartmouth College in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences. His research program examines how the brain combines sensory, motor, and cognitive cues form internal computational models of the external world. His work focuses on focuses on understanding the representation of auditory information in the cortex, how auditory information is integrated with cognitive processes, such as attention, decision making, motor planning, or memory, and how auditory and visual information is combined to form unified sensory percepts.