He is a leading researcher in the field of mathematical music theory, working especially on the structure of basic musical materials. He was a keynote speaker at the WORDS 2017 conference and has published in mathematical journals such as Theoretical Computer Science. His teaching focuses especially on music analysis and history of theory, and he is very interested in relationships between performance and analysis. Together with co-author Thomas Noll, he received the Society for Music Theory Outstanding Publication Award in 2013, for their Music Theory Online article, “Modes, the Height-Width Duality, and Handschin’s Tone Character.” With co-author Norman Carey, he received the Society for Music Theory Emerging Scholar Award for their Journal of Music Theory article, “Regions: A Theory of Tonal Spaces in Early Medieval Treatises”