He has a bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering from Clemson University and a PhD in Environmental Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology. He completed a postdoctoral fellowship in Pediatric Pulmonology at the Emory University School of Medicine and served on the research faculty at Emory for an additional six years. He has been a faculty member at Georgia State University since 2014, and his research interests include air pollution exposure assessment in difficult-to-measure situations or populations such as physically-active persons whose ventilation rate may be highly variable.