He has conducted translational bioinformatics since 2010. He earned his PhD in bioinformatics and data mining and a graduate certificate in statistics. He has conducted extensive professional service to the research community by serving as a Program Committee Member for international conferences in bioinformatics (e.g., Translational Bioinformatics Conference) and data mining. He also wrote meeting reports three times for ISMB as invited by Genome Biology. He has published studies based on eMERGE and is the PI of an approved UK Biobank access application.