He earned B.S./M.S. degrees in Biochemistry at Brandeis University in 2003 and a Ph.D. degree in Biophysics from the Scripps Research Institute in 2009. He was a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Laboratory of Molecular Biology, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases at NIH from 2009-2013. In 2013, he joined the Department of Molecular Medicine as an Assistant Professor.