He received an A.B. magna cum laude in Applied Mathematics from Harvard University and a Ph.D. in Materials Science & Engineering from Stanford University. He then completed postdoctoral research at the BioMEMS Resource Center of Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School. His research group at Brown engineers interfacial biomaterials and microfluidics to elucidate tumor invasion, drug resistance, and heterogeneity. He also explores unconventional fabrication techniques for self-assembly and patterning of 2D nanomaterials. He has received the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship, the Damon Runyon Cancer Research Fellowship, and the Brown University Pierrepont Award for Outstanding Advising.