His research interests are in applied probability and stochastic networks. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Southern California in Electrical Engineering, where he was a Ming Hsieh Scholar. He is also the recipient of the 2016 Lajos Takacs award for outstanding Ph.D. thesis on Queueing Theory and its Applications, "for the introduction and analysis of transitory queueing models, using an impressive range of analytic techniques.” His research is supported by the National Science Foundation and the Purdue Research Foundation.