In 1997, he obtained his Ph.D. in computational neuroscience from Boston University where he worked with Drs. Stephen Grossberg and Daniel Bullock. He then worked as a post-doctoral fellow with Dr. Steve Scott at Queen’s University, studying the neural mechanisms of motor control, and later with Dr. John Kalaska at the University of Montréal, studying the cortical mechanisms of planning and decision-making. In 2004 he joined the faculty of the University of Montréal where he has established a lab studying decision-making and movement planning using computational modeling, psychophysics, transcranial magnetic stimulation, and multi-electrode recording in awake, behaving monkeys.