He is a member of the Signal and Image Processing Institute, holds a joint appointment in the Department of Biomedical Engineering, and is affiliated with the Dornsife Cognitive Neuroscience Imaging Center and the Brain and Creativity Institute. He received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering in 2004 and 2005, respectively, and the Ph.D. in electrical and computer engineering in 2011, all from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His research interests include multidimensional signal processing, biomedical imaging, neuroimaging, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), constrained image reconstruction, signal modeling, inverse problems, compressed sensing, parameter estimation, and experiment design.