He joined the department in 2013 after completing his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Prior to that, he received his Bachelor and Masters Degrees, both in mechanical engineering, from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. His research interests are focused on various thermal-fluid transport phenomena at the micrometer length scale, including micro-bubbles, micro-droplets, micro-particles, acoustofluidics, electrokinetics and interfaces.