Previously, he was an assistant professor of chemical engineering at the City College of New York, a founding faculty member of the CUNY Energy Institute, and the founding director of the Kaylie Prize in Entrepreneurship at the Zahn Center. Since 2010, he has been a key member of two ARPA-E projects relating to next-generation electrical grid systems. The first project will realize a 5000 cycle battery that costs $100/kWhr. The second project will create a process to scale solid state capacitors for applications in power conversion and power factor correction.