He acquired a Ph.D. in Industrial & Systems Engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology in 2009, and his B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Production Engineering from Alexandria University, Egypt, in 2002 and 2004, respectively. Prior to joining Texas A&M, he worked as a research scientist at the Manufacturing Systems Research laboratory (General Motors R&D), and a faculty member in Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands.