He was awarded his PhD from the UNSW Business School Australia, with a doctoral fellowship in research methods from University of Oxford. He has published in leading business & management journals (20+ A* or A ranked articles in ABDC list) with a Google Scholar h-Index of 20 and more than 1800 citations since 2013. He received the UOW Vice Chancellor's award for teaching, nomination for excellent research supervision and several prestigious awards for research. He won various internal and external grants including more than $100K grant in 2017 mostly for his research on business analytics of big data. He was awarded "Paper of the Year Award" in 2018 by Electronic Markets Journal for his research on big data analytics.