His commitment to the field of sleep medicine research spans the past decade. He obtained his doctoral degree in clinical psychology from the University of Florida in 2013 and completed his postdoctoral training in Translational Sleep Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh. He is currently working towards licensure in the state of Utah in pursuit of establishing a Behavioral Sleep Medicine Clinic at BYU. His current research focuses on uncovering the pathophysiology of insomnia using sleep neuroimaging methods. His goal is to develop treatments that target the mechanisms linking insomnia to psychiatric disorders.