He earned his Ph.D. from the Zachry Department of Civil Engineering at Texas A&M University in May 2009. He received his M.S. in Construction Management from Texas A&M University and before that he worked in South Korea as a bridge and tunnel engineer for nearly five years. He is a licensed Professional Engineer in Texas. His research interests include risk and decision analysis for project system management, renewable energy monitoring system development, infrastructure sustainability, stochastic design of an early warning system for structural failure, and building information modeling (BIM).