His areas of expertise include urban governance, international development planning, and political economy. His research interests also include free and open-source software, improving crowdsourced data collection for use by municipal agencies, and the “greening” of transportation systems in global cities. Most recently, he was a postdoctoral fellow at the Thomas J. Watson Institute of International and Public Affairs at Brown University. He holds a PhD in Urban Studies and Planning from MIT and a Bachelor’s degree in Mathematics from Princeton University.