His primary research interests in artificial intelligence, intelligent agents, machine learning, and evolutionary computation. He has authored approximately 300 papers in workshops, conferences, and journals in several areas of artificial intelligence. He received the prestigious NSF CAREER award in 1997. He has served on the program committees of major national and international conferences in the field of intelligent agents including AAAI, IJCAI, AAMAS, GECCO, etc. He regularly reviews papers for major AI journals and serves on the proposal review panels of the National Science Foundation. He has chaired multiple conferences, workshops and symposia on agent learning and reasoning. He has presented several tutorials on different multiagent systems topics in association with the leading international conferences on intelligent agents. He was elected to the position of Senior Member in the professional organization of AI researchers, the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), in 2014. He has been recognized with a lifetime Outstanding Researcher Award by The University of Tulsa in May, 2023.