He received his PhD in Statistics from Stanford University in 2004. His M.A. is in artificial intelligence, from the Ecole Normal Superieure de Cachan (France) and Washington University, Saint Louis, while his B.S. is in mathematics from the Ecole Normal Superieure de Cachan. He joined the faculty in the mathematics department at UCSD in 2005. His research interests are in high-dimensional statistics, machine learning, spatial statistics, image processing, and applied probability.