He did his PhD in Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute at Troy in NY. Recently, he was selected by the Army Research Laboratory (ARL) Multiscale Multidisciplinary Modeling of Electronic Materials (MSME) Collaborative Research Alliance (CRA) to participate as the Minority Serving Institution (MSI) partner. The award will provide support for several graduate students and computational infrastructure to perform 3D simulations of THz plasmonic structures.