His research focuses on the advancement of theoretical and computational methods to quantify complex fluid flow. He received a BS in Aerospace Engineering from The University of Texas at Austin (2001), and PhD in Control and Dynamical Systems from the California Institute of Technology (2006). From 2006-2009 he carried out an NSF Mathematical Sciences Postdoctoral Research Fellowship to translate his work in dynamical systems to research on cardiovascular biomechanics at Stanford University. From 2009-2013 he served as an Assistant Professor at the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago, IL, before joining the faculty at UC Berkeley.