He arrived at TCU in 2006 following postdoctoral positions at Vanderbilt University (2005-2006) and Yale University (2001-2005). He received his Ph.D. in Mathematics in 2001 from New York University's Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences after earning Sc.B. degrees with honors in Mathematics and Math-Physics from Brown University in 1996. He has been a visiting scholar at Hebrew University (2005) and the Universities of Lille and Artois (2013).