After receiving his bachelor’s degree from the University of California Berkeley, he earned his PhD in Computer Science from the University of California Los Angeles where he focused on the development of embedded systems for the Wireless Health Institute. Most recently, he was a postdoctoral associate, and then instructor, in the department of internal medicine, section of cardiology, at the Yale School of Medicine. He has recently focused on clinical research challenges in predictive models and comparative effectiveness techniques, in order to better address the challenges of personalized health monitoring, in the interest of developing personalized remote systems for clinical outcomes.