He earned his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University in 2011. Prior to joining University of Michigan in 2014, he was a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Chemistry at University of California, Berkeley. He is the recipient of a U. S. Department of Energy EERE Postdoctoral Research Award (SunShot Fellowship), the AVS Student Award for Best Graduate Research in ALD, and a Stanford Graduate Fellowship. His current research focuses on the application of atomic layer deposition, semiconductor nanowires, and quantum confinement structures for energy conversion and storage devices.