He completed his Ph.D. in Information Systems from Indiana University where he was a BAT fellow and KPMG scholar. He is the director of the Michigan Autonomous Vehicle Research Intergroup Collaboration (MAVRIC), an affiliate of the Michigan Interactive and Social Computing (MISC) Research Group, Michigan Robotics, Information Behavior and Interaction (IBI) Research Group and the National Center for Institutional Diversity (NCID) all at the University of Michigan and an affiliate of the Center for Computer-Mediated Communication (CCMC) at Indiana University. His research has been sponsored by the U.S. Army, Toyota Research Institute, MCity, Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies and the National Science Foundation.