He received his Ph.D. (August 2015) and M.S. (May 2013) from Pennsylvania State University (PSU). At LSU and PSU, he has taught manufacturing systems and Information Technology (IT) courses. Prior to his graduate studies, he worked as a computer network and security specialist at Samsung SDS in South Korea from 2001 to 2009. His research area includes modeling and analyzing manufacturing power and energy consumption, and he has authored or co-authored seven peer-reviewed papers, all of which focus on manufacturing energy models. His three undergraduate advisees received the 1st place award in the Annual IIE/SHS Student Simulation Competition of the Healthcare Systems Process Improvement Conference in February 2016.