He holds an affiliate appointment with the Bioengineering Department and the School of Systems Biology, George Mason University. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Minnesota in the year 2008. His research interests include machine learning, bioinformatics and high performance computing. He is the recipient of the NSF Early Faculty Career Award in 2013, the 2013 Volgenau Outstanding Teaching Faculty Award, 2012 Computer Science Department Outstanding Teaching Faculty Award and 2011 Computer Science Department Outstanding Junior Researcher Award. He is Mason's 2014 SCHEV Outstanding Faculty Award, Rising Star nominee. His research is funded by NSF, NIH, DARPA, USDA and nVidia Corporation.