He received his undergraduate degree in Engineering from Ecole Polytechnique in France in 2001. He then obtained a Master's degree and a PhD in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University in 2003 and 2006. He worked as a junior Research Scientist at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences of New York University from 2006 until 2008, when he took a position as an Assistant Professor in Mechanical Science and Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. He joined UC San Diego in December of 2013. He was the recipient of the Andreas Acrivos Dissertation Award in Fluid Dynamics in 2007, and of the Pi Tau Sigma Gold Medal in Mechanical Engineering in 2011.