Eugene works with the UBC researchers curating and managing research data, from planning to deposit, to preservation. Eugene participates in building Lunaris, a scalable, national research data discovery service and collaborates with the Digital Research Alliance of Canada (the Alliance), and the European Union (OpenAIRE). He is the PI for the national Geodisy project funded by the Alliance. His recent peer recognition includes the Canadian Association of Research Libraries, American Society for Engineering Education, and Special Library Association awards. He published more than thirty peer-reviewed papers and presented at more than seventy conferences. Eugene is an adjunct professor at the iSchool at UBC and is one of the founders of Portage Network in Canada.