He is also engaged in teaching and research as an assistant professor at the Rice School of Architecture, where he was the Wortham Fellow from 2009 to 2011. He received his Master of Architecture from Princeton and Bachelor of Architecture from Virginia Tech. Previous to founding SCHAUM/SHIEH, Schaum was a project architect at OMA New York on Milstein Hall at Cornell University's College of Architecture, Art and Planning. He also worked at Studio Daniel Libeskind and LTL Architects in New York, and in San Francisco at Jim Jennings Architecture, where he worked on a range of projects in the Bay Area and the Southern California desert. Schaum is licensed in New York, California, and Texas. He is NCARB-certified and LEED AP BD+C.