His research focuses on, multifunctional materials for controlling elastic/acoustic wave propagation, optical techniques for nondestructive evaluation, biosensing, and structural health monitoring, and phonon transport in materials. He obtained the B.Sc. degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Lagos, Nigeria, in 1998, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Mechanical Engineering from Boston University in 2003 and 2006. Before joining the faculty at Northwestern University, He spent 2006-2007 in the Materials Science and Engineering Department at The Johns Hopkins University, as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow, and the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory as a Visiting Scientist. He was the Chair of the 2015 International Symposium on Laser Ultrasonics and Advanced Sensing.