Eric joins the CICC from Johns Hopkins, where he completed his Masters in Informatics. His research in kidney transplantation and computer simulation at Hopkins provides surgeons with a patient-specific clinical decision support tool; potentially increasing the kidney donor pool by 8%. Eric's work won a TeraGrid Supercomputing Award from the National Science Foundation (NSF).

Previously, Eric studied Decision Science (a field of mathematics) at the London School of Economics in UK and Industrial Engineering at the University of Toronto. On his vacations, Eric climbs mountains around the world.