He is also one of the founding faculty members of the Montreal Institute for Learning Algorithms. He is a co-author of the newest edition of the well-known book Data Mining: Practical Machine Learning Tools and Techniques. He has a PhD from the University of Waterloo and worked with both the University of Toronto's Machine Learning group and Microsoft Research in Redmond Washington extensively during his graduate studies. He has over two decades of experience in artificial intelligence research and the application of artificial intelligence techniques to real world problems.