He attended Lehigh University for his undergraduate studies in Materials Science &amp; Engineering (2006) and followed his interest in making materials to the University of California Santa Barbara where he completed his doctoral research (2011) on understanding the influence of kinetics of hydrolysis on the atomic structures of materials, as inspired by biomineralization and supervised by Prof. Daniel Morse. During his postdoctoral studies at Johns Hopkins University with Prof. Tyrel McQueen, he worked on the chemistry and physics of strongly-correlated electronic materials.