He is an applied game theorist who studies culture, identity and institutions. His graduate training was conducted at Oxford University (D.Phil., M.Phil.). He is a member of the Institute for Mathematical Behavioral Sciences at UC Irvine and a Faculty Fellow of the Association for Analytic Learning about Islam & Muslim Societies (AALIMS). Previously, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow in Economics at Oxford University. In 2009, he was named a Robert Solow Fellow of the Cournot Centre for Economic Studies in Paris and is a past recipient of the John Monash Scholarship which is presented by the Governor General of Australia.