He received his PhD degree in Computer Science from Kent State University in December 2009, and joined The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center in January 2010 as a Postdoctoral Researcher. In 2010, he received the NSF/CRA/CCC Computing Innovation Fellow award and had been supported by the NSF for the CIFellows project for 2 years. His research interests include translational bioinformatics, clinical informatics, computational biology, graph databases, data/graph mining, algorithmic graph theory, and visualization.