He completed his PhD in Computing Science at the University of Alberta. His research lies at the intersection points of people, information, and technology. This includes emerging technology like cloud computing and autonomic computing; how Big Data and open data can be effectively managed, analyzed, and visualized to become usable, accessible information; research communities, particularly how they share and disseminate research outcomes; management of cloud-scale data; and leveraging novel technologies to meet research, educational, and commercial needs. His privacy work has ranged from studies on public attitudes toward privacy in healthcare to a joint patent application with IBM on privacy testing methodologies for newly developed software.