He holds a Ph.D. in Quantitative Psychology and an M.S. in Mathematics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. In 2013, he was awarded the William K. Estes Early Career Award from the Society for Mathematical Psychology. He conducts research within the emerging field of behavioral decision-making. His primary research topic is the development and evaluation of mathematical models of individual and group decision-making. His recent work examines how individuals integrate multiple pieces of information when making a decision and the rationality of various decision strategies. He is also interested in evaluating the performance of various decision rules in the context of the linear model.