He is the founding deputy director of the Research Institute for the Ageing and Society. He was previously a Postdoctoral Fellow at University of Manitoba and a Researcher at National ICT Australia based at the University of Queensland. He is also a research associate at the National University of Malaysia’s Institute of Visual Informatics, where is a PhD supervisor, and at the University Institute of Lisbon’s Information Sciences, Technologies, and Architecture Research Center; he is also an Adjunct Research Professor at the University of Western Ontario.