His research interests are in comparative and functional genomics with a special emphasis on applications of next-generation sequencing technologies. He heads the Canadian Center for Computational Genomics (C3G), a Genome Canada bioinformatics platform and the Epigenomics Data Coordination Center at McGill, a project that oversees data collection and processing for a large initiative associated with the International Human Epigenome Consoritum (IHEC). He is also a member of the Research Advisory Council of Compute Canada, the national platform for high-performance computing, and of CANARIE, responsible for Canada’s ultra-fast network backbone.