He is currently the Director of the Computational Linguistics program at the CUNY Graduate Center. The focus of his research is on how language production characteristic carry and convey information. In speech this involves analyzing prosody (intonation), in text analyzing typing behavior. He is a member of IEEE, ISCA and ACL. In 2014 he was awarded an NSF CAREER grant titled “More than Words: Advancing Prosodic Analysis”, and a Junior Faculty Research Award in Science and Engineering from CUNY. His lab is supported by NSF, DARPA, IARPA, and AFOSR.