His research interests include renewable energy applications, electric transportation, CMOS power management, data center power delivery, and advanced control of power converters. He has received the Google Faculty Research Award, the Richard M. Bass Outstanding Young Power Electronics Engineer Award of the IEEE Power Electronics Society, the Air Force Office of Scientific Research Young Investigator Award, and the UIUC Dean's Award for Excellence in Research. He received his PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2012.