After receiving his bachelors degree from the University of California Berkeley, he earned his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of California Los Angeles, where he focused on the development of embedded systems for the Wireless Health Institute. Most recently, he was a postdoctoral associate, and then instructor, in the department of internal medicine, section of cardiology, at the Yale School of Medicine. He has recently focused on clinical research challenges in predictive models and comparative effectiveness techniques, in order to better address the challenges of personalized health monitoring, in order to develop personalized remote systems for clinical outcomes.