He received his PhD from the department of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University. Following his PhD, he worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems (LIDS) at MIT. He was co-awarded the Kenneth C. Sevcik outstanding student paper award at the SIGMETRICS 2010 and the best paper award at the SIGMETRICS 2015. He is a recipient of the NSF CAREER award and Google Faculty Research Award in 2016. His research interest includes matrix/tensor factorizations, graphical models, network analysis, and correlation analysis, with applications in social computing, computational biology, and privacy.