Before joining UCONN, he worked as an Acting Assistant Professor in the Department of Applied Mathematics at the University of Washington from September 2016 to August 2017, and a TUM foundation fellow in the Department of Mathematics at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) in Germany from May 2015 to August 2016. He received his Ph.D. in Mathematical Finance from the University of Alberta (Canada). His main research interests are stochastic control and optimization with applications in actuarial science and mathematical finance.