He earned is S.B. in Chemical Engineering at MIT in 2003 and his PhD in Chemical Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley in 2009 studying with Professor Rachel Segalman. He was then a postdoctoral scholar tat the California Institute of Technology with Professors David Terrell, Julia Kornfield, and Zhen-Gang Wang from 2008 to 2009. He started as an assistant professor at MIT in December 2009.