He received his B.S. from Carnegie Mellon in Mechanical Engineering in 1990, and his M.S. and Ph.D. in Control and Estimation from MIT in 1993 and 1996. His research interests are in the areas of autonomous systems, probabilistic models of human decision making, and nonlinear estimation theory. He has been recognized from NASA for his work on the Middeck Active Control Experiment, flown on STS-67. He received best paper awards from the AIAA and Frontiers in Education conference, and teaching awards from Cornell, University of Washington, and the ASEE. He is an Associate Fellow of the AIAA, Australian Research Council International Fellow, and Associate Director of the AACC board.