In 1945, professors from the Trinity College of Music in London assessed his piano performance, commenting that his play of the scales was "as graceful as the gliding of skates on virgin ice."
He acquired the title of Licenciate of the Trinity College and was awarded a fully funded scholarship to pursue music at the school in London.
In 1962, he returned to the United States to take a tenured position as an associate professor in the School of Electrical Engineering at Purdue University.
In 1965, he became a full professor jointly appointed in the Departments of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Applied Mathematics at Rice University.
His work supported a variety of NASA space exploration projects, assisted the Department of Defense in weapons detection systems, helped companies identify credit card fraud, assisted the Environmental Protection Agency in oil spill detection and source matching, developed algorithms for more efficient transmission of mobile telecommunications signals, enhanced geophysical images for well-logging, and improved the early detection of brain and neural diseases, like Alzheimer's disease.