His primary research is in evolutionary and computational genetics. He also has a strong interest in the changing nature of scholarly communication, particularly at the intersection of scholarly publications with data and software. He served as the Associate Director of Informatics at the National Evolutionary Synthesis Center from 2006-2015 and, in that position, helped steer a variety of community-oriented informatics capacity-building programs. He has been Principal Investigator on the primary NSF grant funding Dryad since 2008 and currently serves on the Board of Directors for Dryad and for Phoenix Bioinformatics. Previously, Vision served on the NSF Advisory Committee on Cyberinfrastructure and the ORCiD Board of Directors.