He received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from UCSD in 2010, and was subsequently a postdoc researcher in the Department of Electrical Engineering at California Institute of Technology and the NSF Nanoscale Science and Technology Center at UC Berkeley. Prior to joining Penn, he was an assistant professor of SUNY Buffalo from 2014 to 2017. He has authored and coauthored 54 papers in a variety of journals including Science, Nature Materials, Nature Photonics and PRL. His current research is supported by National Science Foundation, Army Research Office, and King Abdullah University of Science and Technology. He is a recipient of the U.S. Army Research Office Young Investigator Program (YIP) Award in 2016.