Dr. Doom earned his Ph.D in computer science and engineering from Michigan State University in 1998 with specialization in computing systems. He holds additional degrees in computational mathematics (B.S., 1992) and computer science (B.S., 1992) from Bowling Green State University as well as a degree in computer science (M.S., 1994) from Michigan State University. He is a co-director of the bioinformatics research group at WSU and actively pursues research in the fields of design automation, computational biology, high-performance computer architecture and systems, performance evaluation/operational analysis, distributed/parallel systems, and computational theory.