His primary research areas are design automation and optimization, adaptive design of experiments (DOE), metamodeling, empirical similitude, design theory for managing product obsolescence, ontology-based decision support and knowledge representation of design problems, and computational design synthesis using graph grammar. He earned his PhD in mechanical engineering from UT Austin in 2006 and was then a postdoc in the NSF center for e-Design at Virginia Tech. For more information visit http://adoptlab.csufresno.edu/.