He received his Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering at the University of Michigan and post-doctoral training at the Center for Engineering in Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital and Shriners Hospitals in Children at Boston. In 2014, he started his independent research career at the UMass-Amherst. With core expertise in biomaterials, micro-fabrication, cellular engineering, and biomedical imaging, his lab aims to create tissue engineered bone marrow-mimicking micro-environments for better understanding human stem cell and cancer biology and ultimate clinical translation. His research has been supported by a NCI R00 grant.