He received his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor in 2010 and conducted research on the biomechanics of the inner ear. After completing his Ph.D., he was a postdoc at the University of Michigan for a project on the mechanics of nanocomposites. His research group at Georgia Tech focused on research in hearing biomechanics (supported by NSF and NIH) and on the mechanics of architected materials and metamaterials.