He received a B.S. degree (2008) and a Ph.D. (2014) both in Electrical Engineering from the University of California, Riverside. He was a fellow of the NSF Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship in Video-bioinformatics. He is the author of several peer-reviewed journal and conference publications. His work on bio-imaging and emotive robotics have been featured in Science Magazine (2013) and Motor Trend Magazine (2014, 2015), respectively.