His research is in manufacturing, mechatronics, sensor technology, metrology, signal processing, system identification, dynamics and control. He honorably served as a soldier in the United States Army Reserve from 1999-2007, where he rose to the rank of Staff Sergeant and actively led a platoon from 2003-2004, and was awarded various medals and awards. His PhD is from Clemson University in 2011 in the area of GPU accelerated automatic tool path planning for machine tools. Hespent a year as an industry post-doctoral fellow at InSituTec developing precision sensing and metrology devices for the MEMS industry.