Since 1971 he has been an active faculty member and administrator at George Mason University. In the School of Information Technology and Engineering, he served as the Associate Dean of Research and Graduate Studies from 1993 to 1996 and the Interim Dean from 1996 to 1997. He has served as Director of the Institute for Computational Sciences and Informatics from 1995 to 2000 and Director of the Institute for Biosciences, Bioinformatics, and Biotechnology from 1999 to 2000. In July 2000 he became the founding dean of the School of Computational Sciences. He received the Bachelors of Science Degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Virginia in 1962 and serve in the U.S. Navy for four years. In 1967, he received the Master of Science degree and in 1971 the Ph.D. degree, both in electrical engineering, from the Pennsylvania State University. He joined the Physics faculty at George Mason University in 1971, and then in 1984 he became the founding Chair of the newly created Electrical and Computer Engineering Department where he holds the rank of Professor. He served in the position of Chair until 1990. He received a Distinguished Faculty Award for Excellence in Teaching and Scholarship from GMU in 1987, and has received several performance awards from the Naval Research Laboratory where he has conducted research as a consultant. He has served as a member of the Council of Higher Education of the Virginia Advisory Committee on Graduate and Continuing Education in Northern Virginia. His major area of research is the generation of high power microwaves using relativistic electron beams and the application of microwaves in materials processing.