His research interests include architecture, open source hardware, and software issues for massively parallel computation systems. His group has built the MIAOW open source GPGPU, and the DySER extension to OpenSPARC. He is a recipient of the IEEE TCCA Young Computer Architecture Award in 2012, an NSF CAREER award in 2009, the Emil H Steiger Distinguished Teaching award in 2014, and the Letters and Science Philip R. Certain - Gary Sandefur Distinguished Faculty Award in 2013. He has authored multiple IEEE Micro Top Picks papers, best paper awards, multiple CACM Research Highlights papers and nominations, and has 15 patents/applications. He earned a PhD from The University of Texas at Austin in December 2006.