He is part of the Energy Systems research group housed at the Wallace Energy Systems and Renewables Facility (WESRF). He earned the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Vermont in 2009 and 2012, respectively. His primary field of research is the vulnerability of electrical infrastructure, in particular, the study of cascading outages. Part of his research has been developed through collaborations with Sandia National Laboratories and IBM Watson Research Center among others. He is a member of the IEEE Task Force on Understanding, Prediction, Mitigation and Restoration of Cascading Failures.