He received his PhD from the MIT Media Lab, Affective Computing Group. He joined ASU's School of Computing and Informatics and the Arts, Media, and Engineering graduate program at ASU in 2006. He has worked with the Entrepreneurial Management Unit at the Harvard Business School, Deutsche Telekom Laboratories, SETI Institute, and IBM's Almaden Research Center where he was awarded ten patents. He holds an MSE from Stanford University's Mechanical Engineering Product Design Program and a BA in Bio-Physics from Rice University. He has been a co-Principal Investigator on the Hubble Space Telescope's Investigation of Binary Asteroids and consultant to UNICEF and the World Scout Bureau.