He received the Honours B.Eng. (with distinction), M.Eng., and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering (photonics) from McGill University, Canada, in 2005, 2007, and 2012, respectively. He was an Associate Research Scholar (2016-2018) and a Banting and NSERC Postdoctoral Fellow (2012-2016) at Princeton University, USA. His research interests include nanophotonics, photonic integrated circuits, and neuromophic computing, with emphasis on applications such as information processing, nonlinear programming, and study of complex dynamical systems.