Before joining the faculty, he was a postdoctoral associate in the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL) at MIT on studying robotics with applications on manufacturing. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from University of Massachusetts at Amherst in 2011. His research interests span machine learning, multi-agent systems, and robotics, aiming to develop computational models and methods for intelligent systems to harness the power of collaboration to accomplish tasks of higher complexity.