Prior to joining Queen's, he was a Postdoctoral Research Associate with the Coordinated Science Laboratory (CSL) at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (2012-2013) and Postdoctoral Researcher at the Cymer Center for Controls and Dynamics at the University of California in San Diego (2009-2012). He received a PhD degree in Mathematics from Queen's University, Canada, in 2009. His research interests include systems and controls, distributed control and optimization, social and economic networks, game theory, geometric control and mechanics, and Riemannian geometry.