He is also a director for the O.H. Reaugh Laboratory for Oil and Gas Processing Research at WSU. He joined the school in 2005 as an assistant professor after completing his Ph.D. degree in chemical engineering from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He has published over 50 publications in the research areas of energy generations from alternative fuels. His researches have been cited over 4,000 times with h-index of 27. In 2014, he was named as Highly Cited Researcher by Thomson Reuters.