He is both a professor of biology and the Clark Leadership Chair in Data Analytics at the University of Maryland.
[1] Previously, he was a professor at Georgia Tech,[2] where he was the founding director of the Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Quantitative Biosciences.
[7] While in graduate school, he co-authored a widely cited paper, Re-examination of the “3/4-law” of Metabolism, published in the Journal of Theoretical Biology.
[8] As a post-doctoral scholar, he published Coevolutionary arms races between bacteria and bacteriophage in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
[9] His notable more recent publications include Statistical structure of host–phage interactions, PNAS (2011),[10] Ocean viruses and their effects on microbial communities and biogeochemical cycles, F1000 Bio.