He went on to earn a PhD in Theoretical Physics from Imperial College London and has held postdoctoral and research positions at the University of Heidelberg in Germany, Los Alamos National Laboratory, MIT, and the Santa Fe Institute.
He developed projects, like the South Side Civic Scopeathon, Environmental Frontiers, and the Million Neighborhoods Initiative, which mapped informal settlements and underserved areas to enhance essential services access.
In 2019, he was elected as a member-at-large in the American Association for the Advancement of Science and was Member of the Executive Committee of the Center for Non-linear Studies at Los Alamos National Laboratory.
Analyzing the growth, global reach, and interdisciplinary collaboration within sustainability science, he demonstrated its evolution into a distinct field emerging out of the integration of human, social, and ecological systems.
[19] In addition, he investigated how urbanization drives economic development and knowledge creation globally, revealing that various city characteristics scale predictably with population size, impacting innovation and infrastructure differently.
[23] Moreover, he introduced a quantitative approach for real-time adaptive health surveillance and control, using probabilistic models to predict new cases with quantified uncertainty, detect anomalies, and support interventions with interactive technology.