Previously, he was a postdoctoral fellow in the department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of Michigan under the supervision of Prof. Necmiye Ozay. Prior to that, he was a postdoctoral associate with the Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems (LIDS) at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) under the supervision of Prof. Emilio Frazzoli. He has obtained a Dipl.-Ing.(FH) degree in automotive engineering with a specialization in mechatronics and control systems from the Esslingen University of Applied Sciences, Germany in 2008 and his S.M. and Ph.D. degrees in mechanical engineering from MIT in 2010 and 2016, respectively.