He works with RIT’s Center for Sustainable Packaging to develop new generation materials and packaging solutions that reduce food and energy waste. He chairs the Sustainable Packaging working group for the International Association of Packaging Research Institutes (IAPRI). He is working with the New York State Pollution Prevention Institute (NYP2I) to develop bioplastics packaging to handle food waste that is suitable for aerobic and anaerobic degradation. He joined RIT in July, 2012 and previously was a research associate in the School of Packaging Science at Michigan State University.