I am an associate professor of the Department of Computer Science at the University of Idaho. I am also the Director of Graduate Studies of this department. My research interest includes databases, knowledge representation and reasoning, smart information processing, big data, data science, bioinformatics, health informatics, educational and learning technologies, and human computer interactions. My research is largely supported by the US National Science Foundation, and the National Institutes of Health. I have previously been in the faculty of Wayne State University, Mississippi State University and Macquarie University. Most of my research products are available on DBLP, Google Scholar and ResearchGate sites. I am also a member of the ACM and IEEE CS.