He also holds an appointment at the College of Computer & Information Science and is a core faculty member at the Network Science Institute. He is a fellow at the Institute for Quantitative Social Science (IQSS) at Harvard University. He is a recipient of a Young Investigator Award for his work on social networks in collaborative decision-making. Before joining Northeastern University, he was a post-doctoral fellow at Harvard Business School and IQSS. He earned his PhD in Information Systems from Technische Universität München, Germany in 2011, a MSc in Information Systems in 2007, and a BS in Computer Science in 2006. His work has been funded by NSF and published in leading journals including Management Science, Information Systems Research, and Academy of Management Discoveries.