He earned his M.Sc. in Socio-Economic Systems Engineering from Sharif University of Technology in Tehran, an M.Phil. and a PhD in Decision Science and Statistics from ESSEC Business School in Paris, and a second PhD in Healthcare Operations and Information Management from McGill University in Montreal. His research expertise is in healthcare analytics, big data analytics, healthcare operations management, and medical decision making. His current main projects are chronic disease (particularly hypertension) management in the presence of measurement noise and progressions of Activities of Daily Living (ADLs) among older adults.